Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curvesome . . . shapely . . . buxom . . . comely . . . pretty . . . piquant . . . zaftig . . ." Thy Neighbor's Wife is an orgy of adjectives, and both sexes get their share. A peak of sorts is reached when Talese describes the members of the Supreme Court: "Broad-chested, sixty-six-year-old mustachioed Thurgood Marshall . . . tidy, hornrimmed, thin-lipped Harry Blackmun." Much of the book reads as if it has been badly translated: "Some inventive interpretation of the malleable wording of the flexible definition of the crime of obscenity...
...Common, heading down what is now Mass Ave, searching for the British. A few were captured; others didn't return. Just before dawn, with the royal forces only minutes away, a young Minuteman wheeled his horse into the Tavern yard screaming his report. The Minutemen assembled in two long, thin lines on the Common, neither blocking the road to Concord, nor backing down, in a symbolic stance by an outnumbered and outgunned militia...
Brown's hard asphalt track, covered with a thin layer of rubber, proved ideal for Crimson hurdlers Chuck Johnson and Kim Stevens, who cruised to victory in the 100 high and 400 intermediate hurdles, recording impressive times...
...National Press Club--the capitol's branch of Alcoholics Anonymous--knows what he drinks. For Bakshian, it's been a long trip up from copy boy at U.S. News and World Report to "White House insider." He lumbers across the lounge--grey herringbone, white shirt with maroon navy pencil-thin tie, grey flannels--a figure that any Young Republican could look up to. As he talks--fast, clipped tones that emerge from somewhere under his Groucho Marx mustache--Bakshian switches back and forth from cigar to definitive statement to bottle of Bock's Beer...
...Yorkers are best in adversity," Mayor Koch kept saying as he cheered on walkers and joggers and cyclists. Often enough, they are (as in the 1965 blackout, though not the one in 1977). But at week's end their patience was beginning to wear a bit thin. The Bronx, it turned out, was indeed a long way up, and the Battery a long way down, and the people who work and live in the nation's biggest and busiest city were eageras they never thought they would beto get back into their hole...