Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sighed. In France The Last Metro has been lavishly garnished with awards and is a huge financial success. It is proof, some would like to think, that nice guys can finish first. It is unfortunately, though, also proof that the line between the compassionate and the superficial is very thin indeed...
...same as Phileas Fogg's, the means even less down to earth. In a gossamer-thin (.004 in.) polyurethane balloon rigged with a 14-ft. by 10-ft. unpressurized gondola, famed Aeronaut Maxie Anderson, 46, set out from Luxor, Egypt, last week, along with fellow Businessman and Adventurer Don Ida, 47. Their plan: to travel eastward around the world-south of Iran and the U.S.S.R. (hostile airspace), south of the Himalayas (deadly to balloons), over the Pacific and North America to an eastern Mediterranean landing spot-in less than ten days. To complete the high-speed journey, the eleven...
...usually serious legislator cracks a thin smile, acknowledging, perhaps, his own inability to avoid a set of beliefs that someone else might call an ideology. "What I am doing is taking the problems you are faced with and trying to resolve them within some kind of framework...
...legislative elections, and the ensuing disarray within France's leftist opposition, had given the impression that Giscard could be re-elected without much effort. As recently as November, polls gave him 59% of the vote in a runoff against Mitterrand, a significant improvement over the paper-thin 50.8% majority with which he was elected in 1974. But the latest surveys show Giscard winning only around 30% in the first round, scheduled for April 26, and 50% to 52% in a second-round runoff against Mitterrand, his most likely final opponent...
...plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourrée; Pablo Picasso holding a penlight in his darkened studio, carving a picture out of thin...