Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their symptoms around the onset of puberty. Bulimarectics tend to be extraverted, successful perfectionists who start the gorging behavior in their late teens, and often have trouble seeing their problem as more than an idiosyncrasy-one reason why it is so little known to the public. Anorectics are cadaverously thin, while bulimarectics generally weigh in at normal levels...
...Americas. Canada and Mexico would prefer a Carter victory; they are apprehensive about Reagan. Both regard his vague proposal for a North American common market as a thin disguise for a U.S. attempt to grab their oil, gas and other natural resources. Leftist leaders in Latin America fear that Reagan might bring back big-stick diplomacy. But the continent's right-wing dictators are rooting for Reagan; they think he would soften Carter's human rights policy. Says a high-ranking Argentine military officer: "We want to be treated as allies, not enemies...
...jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons, now threatens to become a movie star. His whip-thin body coils itself around a character. In this difficult, not altogether plausible part, he menaces and mesmerizes...
...recounting, this glum and familiar little tale of obsession worked out in an act of paltry vengeance sounds thin and narrow. And so it is, at bottom. But the story is told mainly in a jumble of quick-cut flashbacks as the man waits in the hospital to see if the doctors can save his sometime lover. Interspersed in all this are interrogations of the psychiatrist by the detective and some peculiarly nasty glimpses into the surgery room, where un pleasant things are being done to the lady...
...hostages are released, Richard Scammon believes, the stunning television spectacle of men and women kissing U.S. soil after a year of captivity would virtually assure the President's victory. Still, a thin hint that Khomeini was seeking leverage or the White House orchestrating such a drama could send Carter packing. What if there were Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz and Carter dispatched a huge allied armada to clear them out? The experts quibble-maybe yes for Carter-on-the-bridge, maybe...