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Word: thins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puzzling. More curious, though, is the way in which the "Horses" chapter ends, with the line, "Nothing has anything to do with you or me." Pete obviously thinks he's pretty deep, but this adolescent profundity works better in his pithy songs of the 60s than in a thin, overpriced book...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Townshend's Horse Fetish | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...allowed me to play this character the way I wanted to play him," he says. "Castillo is very disciplined, very obsessive in his routines. He is a Ninja warrior. In order to be a very good combatant of crime you have to understand crime. So Castillo walks a very thin line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...respect the integrity of the ingredients by preserving their flavors and aromas," says Robuchon. Working in a bright and airy kitchen amid hanging rows of gleaming copper pans, he oversees a staff of 18. Among them, they turn out pasta and homemade breads twice a day, as well as thin, crackling raspberry and orange tarts. Sooner or later all try their hand at the subtle and restrained garnishes created by Robuchon. He tends to favor a pointillist shimmer of color, sometimes achieved with tiny droplets of tomato sauce dotted from a knife point to rim a sauce of grass-green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Moderne Is Newer Than Nouvelle | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...thin thread by which all this hangs is the immediate and unconditional release of (imprisoned African National Congress Leader) Nelson Mandela. State President P.W. Botha has got to release Mandela unconditionally if he wants to save the situation. I believe President Botha is a sincere man, despite what has happened. It is a good quality, but in this situation it is not enough. I don't think he has the courage to see his sincerity through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for an Explosion | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...outside world must also participate by imposing economic sanctions. (If they are imposed), the 24 million black Africans will see that the outside world is assisting them (and) will say, "The world has not forgotten us. Let's wait and see." This is the thin hope. We have been told several times that it is we (black Africans) who will suffer most if sanctions are imposed. Nobody knows that better than I do, nobody. I've gone through it, my people and I, as a result of the British-proposed sanctions at the United Nations (against Rhodesia in the 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for an Explosion | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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