Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from target, with the plane at an attack altitude of less than 500 ft. and streaking along at 600 m.p.h., the whizzo sees an infrared image of his quarry on his screen and directs a pencil-thin laser beam toward it. This step, called target designation, or painting, supplies the plane's computer with the exact range to the target...
...shimmery blonde with the kind of natural, unfinished all-American good looks that an Eileen Ford talent scout would spot beneath all the pancake powder and lipstick. But Dern plays Connie as a girl who has not yet come into her own. She's tall and thin and leggy, but she walks with a knock-kneed self-conscious slouch. When she tries to be sexy, the worst of Valley Girl fashion comes out of the closet. Too much hairspray, too many jiggly bangles, plastic colorful earrings, a flairy mini-skirt and a push-up satin halter are the usual attire...
According to Haddad, that fight has caused cracks in what he called Lebanon's "thin veneer of civilization...
Garlits and his competitors build and drive a class of dragster known as the top fueler--rail thin, about 20 ft. long, with big, sticky rear wheels and a high wing in back. Behind the driver, the engine throws flame from its exhaust headers and makes a noise that starts like a garbage truck under heavy gunfire and increases rapidly to an apocalyptic roar. "It'll blow your nose for you," one fan declares...
...described himself as "a thin, curly little person, smoking too (many) cigarettes, with a crocked lung," and shrugged off his mysterious illness as his destiny: "A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities." He stressed his dedication to a pure but unrewarding craft: "Poetry wouldn't keep a goldfinch alive." And he professed to be above the battle to support himself. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything," he lectured her. "He is a law unto himself...