Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environment creates a real crazy attitude in demanding people to be thin and exercise a lot, be successful and perfect, all as a package deal. There's also the suggestion that we can still eat what we want [and maintain this image]. There's no woman who isn't affected [in some way by this pressure]," says Honnet...
...show fails to suggest that Katz was ever interested in anything beyond the most generalized form of his human subjects. He may draw figures better than Milton Avery, but that is not saying much. The late-'50s portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Taylor and Norman Bluhm are, as portraiture, thin and perfunctory; for a quick check on what a first-rate American draftsman could do with the human face as a focus of inquisitorial attention, one could have done worse than visit West 57th Street after leaving the Whitney to catch the show of Ellsworth Kelly's portrait drawings...
Last week Wallace's wheelchair was pushed into the old state house of representatives chamber. Fighting tears, Wallace spoke in a thin, pained voice. He talked about the Wallace era, about the long transit that Alabama made from the Depression to the Sunbelt. Wallace glancingly compared himself to Peter the Great and the apostle Paul. He announced that, at age 66, he will not run again for Governor. The long drama of his career will end. And so, symbolically, will...
...very hard to find," he adds. "People who make a consistent life choice to orientate their lives around the search for God often have a magnetic effect on people which helps them make their choices and take the risks of consistency. We will be together through thick or thin and we'll still be here 10 years from now. People will always say to us `you're always there...
...pages; $14.95) is its bemused glimpses of professional folkways. Murphy dryly observes how the size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners near retirement and their power-hungry successors, the condescension of smug lawyers toward everyone who works for them...