Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there simply to record a scene Toulouse-Lautrec would have loved: all the basic human themes in full display-vanity, lust, decadence, hope, pride, grace, rare flashes of transcendence. Feeling fat, frayed and fortyish, the reporter is placed inside a full-length Black Willow mink coat. She becomes tall, thin, "interesting" (instead of "past her prime") and, best of all, totally invulnerable. The cost is $6,950, marked down from $10,000 by Forrest, retailing for $20,000 and up. Suddenly, $6,950 doesn't seem unreasonable-considering that life is short, etc. Considering too that fur prices have...
...Eustatius, better known as Statia, and Saba; French St. Barthelemy, a.k.a. St. Barts; and the British islands of Anguilla, Montserrat and Barbuda. These islands were named but largely ignored by the Spanish because they offered little promise of quick riches; for the most part, they have scant rainfall and thin soil. Thus they were generally spared the excesses of European rivalry that devastated rich plantation colonies like Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba and Hispaniola. They also have escaped exploitation. They cannot be reached by direct flight from the U.S. or Europe, and they closely regulate development of any kind...
...most abstract works, those of the Russian Constructivists, are some of the best in the show. The hard-edged geometric shapes and angular explorations of space tread a thin line between cool control and explosive violence. The works, produced in Russia at the time of the Revolution, recapture the spirit of a nation seizing new politics and new technology...
During early planning meetings, Administration officials had held out the thin hope of achieving Carter's 1976 campaign promise of a balanced budget for 1981. That goal soon ran into this year's election politics. One of the prime candidates for the ax, for example, was the revenue-sharing program under which Washington doles out $6.9 billion annually to state and municipal governments. The program has been severely criticized as an unnecessary subsidy to local and state authorities, who often have more spare cash and enjoy sounder fiscal conditions than the Federal Government. But Governors and mayors launched...
...guise of a refreshing virtue: honesty. The doctrine of "letting it all hang out" got propagated in the headlong idealism of the late '60s. The result is a legacy of insufferable and interminable candor. The idealism has vanished into the mainstream of the culture or into thin air. We are left with the residue of bad habits, ugly noises and moral slackness...