Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch setup proved charming in her early books but has worn a little thin, as Grimes seems to recognize...
Later the hotel chefs produced a cake with white-chocolate icing. On it in thin dark chocolate lettering: WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY TRIP HOME...
...final years, according to Sao Paulo papers, Pedro fell in love with a housemaid, Elza Gulpian de Oliveira. But as the thin-faced, 34-year-old woman told it last week, the old man persistently refused to marry her, without explaining why. When she married another man in 1978, Pedro moped and pined. The last image of Pedro, from another former maid, Ines Mehlich, was his valediction as he left on his fatal seaside trip with the Bosserts in 1979: "I'm going to the beach because my life is ending...
...Boston and its environs can't compare to New York in terms of upbeat culture. This place is probably not even like Los Angeles if a bopping nightlife is what you seek. But don't let first sights hold your glance too long. Despite provincial images fostered by a thin layer of Brahmin aristocracy, Boston has not separated itself from other cultural hotspots...
There are many careers of this sort. Among their prototypes is the former subway artist and present disco decorator Keith Haring, 27, with his thin doodles of barking dogs and radioactive babies. Another is Jean-Michel Basquiat, 24, much hyped as a sort of art-world Eddie Murphy and hence especially popular with Los Angeles collectors, his untutored and zappy scrawls routinely praised for their "energy." (This anxious hope for signs of energy is a sure index of cultural flabbiness.) But for postgraffiti art the writing is already on the wall, and such careers, rolling in their limos to oblivion...