Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still works like a hungry journeyman: jetting from a movie set in San Francisco to a weeklong casino gig in Las Vegas to the taping of his TV series in New York to a benefit for black college students in Los Angeles. "Sure, sometimes I think I'm stretched thin," Cosby muses, pausing to pinch off the end of his Connoisseur Geant. "But I remember how my mother worked twelve- hour days cleaning other people's houses before coming home to take care of her own house and kids," and "all the things I did in college: running track, playing...
...crowds during his ten- day U. S. tour were sometimes surprisingly thin, and his speeches were sometimes wooden, but John Paul left behind the clearest statement yet of his desire to rein in an unruly American flock. A "good Catholic," he declared, is not free to follow his own conscience in place of the traditional moral teachings of the church...
...HAVEN--The scene: Atticus, one of those bookstore-cafes where chic people gather over cappacino and Kant. Matthew J. Reich, in his white and gray shirt, thin silver tie, and gray pin-stripe pants, looks as if he has just stepped off the pages of GQ. He blends in nicely with the wet slate-gray of the New Haven sidewalk outside...
...explanation for the excessive intricacy of this contrivance is too thin. But Nigel Havers is fine as a victim at once too earnest and erratic for his own good. And Michael Caine is marvelous as his father, trying his best not to believe the worst about his son's fate. No movie actor works more patiently to achieve his emotional effects. No matter what stimulating mischief the young folks of British cinema are up to, one prays that the sun never sets on him or on this greatest of English movie genres...
...five years after that experience ended, its effects linger on. Corporate cost-cutting programs begun during the recession have been continued and even intensified since, under the lash of foreign competition and the fear of hostile takeovers. Companies long known for keeping workers on the payroll through thick and thin have changed their policy: AT&T, for instance, has laid off 36,600 workers since January 1984. The result, says Alan Draper, coordinator of the Work in Society program at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.: "American workers are on the defensive. They are working as hard as they...