Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students they definitely have provedthemselves and paid their dues. In addition toOn Thin Ice, Ronis calculates he hasdirected or acted in 45 shows. Moore puts hispersonal figure in the low thirties...
...CINEMA LAND, the line between fantasy and reality is particularly thin and fragile, like a strip of celluloid viewed edgewise. Movies are supposed to imitate life, but they merely imitate other movies. If you doubt this, try counting the number of times Shane, The Front Page or The Maltese Falcon have been rehashed. It's often left up to reality to conform to the images we see on our movie or TV screens, sometimes in very perverse ways...
...participant in the meeting thought, "Careful, we are getting up there where the air is pretty thin." But there was more. Out of 45 issues examined in the polls--such as unemployment, tax reform, the budget and trade--not one was identified as a top concern by more than 12%. Thus despair in the farm and energy belts barely dents the national mood...
...stuffed with tapes it won't close, and the back seat is littered with the plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor-mouthing rock star, signs autographs, but Molly is too shy to approach him. Instead, she gets down to business, striking surgically at every rack in the store: rock, pop, jazz, country, blues...
...forcefully muzzled. "Less than 100 days is not enough time for a government to produce an impact," says Businessman Leonardo Alejandrino, "especially a government that almost by its own admission was not ready to hold office. But it is a long enough time for the euphoria to start wearing thin." Fortune may have lent a hand with the storybook beginning, but it is up to Aquino alone to secure a happy ending...