Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, that's not as easy as it sounds today. A dumb hero on the order of Sylvester Stallone just won't flv, for all intents and purposes. There's a thin line between innocence and sophistication, and it is there that Raiders manages to remain balanced. The movie is ostensibly about the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant, a mystical vessel rumored to hold the remains of the tablets of Moses and possessing an awesome power. The year is 1936, and the U.S. government has learned that Hitler, a fanatic about the occult, has a team...
Sometimes Jeffreys sings about these kids directly: the hard, hopeless downtown orphans whose hustle along the thin edge becomes a musical metaphor for political desperation and spiritual desolation. Often the kids lurk at the core of a lyric or, like phantoms, underneath a smart-stepping riff. Jeffreys does not always deal with them directly. His best tunes - many of them, like Mystery Kids, to be found on his newest album, Escape Artist -have the cool anger and the anxious tenderness of a street blood. A Jeffreys record is like a fast cruise across the radio band. Reggae, jazz and full...
...week later everything fell into place. One thesis a la mode. The thin Lowell House resident had conquered centrifuges, petridishes, SDS protein separation gels, and some bad breaks to close a thoroughly successful undergraduate career in basic biological research...
...caved in. My sister, who was also at Harvard, suffered a manic-depressive breakdown. I still feel a creeping nausea as I think of the policeman coming to get me in my room and telling me that my sister was in Cambridge Hospital. I remember, hours later, shivering in thin jeans and a t-shirt in the hospital's dingy waiting room when Archie Epps walked in and shook my hand...
...myself standing before the Board, wearing my black turtleneck that made me look thin and vulnerable. Dressed this way, I would surprise them with my inner strength, my courage to give all for love. And I wouldnever disclose Christopher's name. If they tortured me, I would never give it. Also, it occurred to me that if, by some lucky and unlikely chance, I was pregnant, and I had kept Christopher out of the trial, he might marry me. Certainly, a trial couldn't hurt...