Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporter) centers on the spirit, the tactics and the hopes, not the history, of the group. Bird tracked down a dozen men and women who were members, organizers, agitators, and they explain a 15-year campaign that was as much religion as politics. Dominic Mignone, so old and thin in the movie that it's hard to imagine he once worked in the mills, recalls the Lawrence struggle: "It came time for the strike, and the boss grabbed me. He said, 'Mike, if you don't cut it out I'm gonna throw you out the window.' Then I said...
Carter seemed to recognize that he was walking a thin line. After charging that Reagan was at variance with the arms-control philosophy of every President since Harry Truman, he added: "I don't want to be misunderstood. I'm not insinuating that my opponent is for war and against peace." Nevertheless, the innuendo was there. After the speech, one Carter adviser lamented: "He looks tawdry and cheap." Said another: "We've got to get him to stop that...
...whether they will, like West German unions, moderate their demands so as not to harm the overall economy." Poles at large were generally aware of that danger. The country's economy, as Communist Party Official Mieczyslaw Rakowski describes it, "already resembles a punching bag hanging from a thin thread...
BUCKNELL 20, BROWN 10--Even with standout linebacker John Woodring, the Bruins are thin this year...
...make a movie about the times we live in, and hope that it can so successfully document the time that people will look to it ten or twenty years from now as the definitive film about the 1970s. His eye for detail is often marvelous--from waterbeds to thin ties, from dropping acid and the emotions that follow (Jeannette claims her hands have flown away while Phil screams his head weighs a thousand pounds) to well decorated lofts...