Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have 23?" He has stopped bouncing. A pause, then "Yes, now 24,000, yes, 25?" A longer pause. Here, if the article on Withington's auction block were merely a blue Canton platter that had peaked out at a predictable $500, or a coffin-top candle stand already breathing thin air at $1,250, Withington might make a fist in the direction of the groggy second bidder and say, "Pow! He's out cold." The joshing might revive the wounded warrior. If not, it would liven the mood of the dealers and collectors gathered here in the tent behind...
Since 1980, farmers have struggled against shrinking markets, debts, tumbling land values and overproduction. Farmers in the Southeast have been robbed of their thin cash flow by capricious weather. Elsewhere, America's gigantic agricultural machine heaps up more grain and fiber than the world can digest. U.S. taxpayers foot the bill...
...ethnic activists and civil rights groups opposing Proposition 63 believe that arguments about the need for national unity are a thin veil for a nativist, xenophobic crusade. "We oppose it because it would breed intolerance, divisiveness and bigotry," says Jessica Fiske of the American Civil Liberties Union. Opponents fear that because of its loose wording, the measure could open the way for legislation that would endanger bilingual ballots, educational programs, emergency services and television programming, all of which aid immigrants, especially the elderly, to adjust to an English-speaking soci- ety. It could also, warns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley...
...manager, who was rated by On the Avenue, a tony monthly tabloid, as one of New York's ten sexiest men. Whatever the reason, there are more than enough takers for ravioli selling at $17 for half a dozen and carpaccio, slim portions of raw beef with thin mayonnaise, which, though prettily presented, hardly seems worth...
...Imputations of Wyeth's motives are lost in the dark nexus where passion meets craft. Speculation on the course of his relationship with Helga turns to fascination with the development of graphic ideas and emotions in studies for final works. In the first sketch for Overflow, Helga is a thin, pretty, sleeping girl; the suggestive lines idealize her. And yet she breathes with youth and possibility. When the series is fleshed out, weight and age attach themselves to her, and by the time Wyeth commits the image to paint she looks calcified, statuesque, a squaw totem placed on its side...