Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes thin envelopes do bring good news...
...point in his deposition it is hard to tell whether Clinton is making one of his paper-thin distinctions or having trouble keeping his stories straight. When he denied having a sexual relationship with Browning, he said she "was mad at me because I'd never been her lover, especially since she thought I was now Gennifer Flowers' lover, and...I told her Gennifer Flowers' story was bogus--it's very hard to prove your innocence in a case like this, but that we'd done it." Just four pages on, however, Clinton admitted his relationship with Flowers hadn...
...form alone, in its insistence on turning negative space into positive space, implies the underlying concept of dialectical racial identities. Walker establishes a visual language that bluntly indicates the race of each silhouetted figure. White figures are marked by a few pointed wisps of hair, a straight nose, and thin lips. Silhouettes of black figures are cut with rounded bumps for hair, or twisted plaits, with rounded noses, and large, often open-hanging lips. The figures look like neither real people nor caricatures, but like characters in some Southern plantation novel that takes itself quite seriously. The silhouette...
...evidence comes from a Europa flyby in which Galileo barnstormed the little moon at an altitude of just a few hundred miles. Soaring over a region known as the Conamara Chaos, the spacecraft photographed an area in which the moon's thin skin of ice appears to have buckled as a result of turbulent water moving just beneath the frozen crust. The crumpling gave the ice a washboard topography made up of a series of parallel cliffs, each the size of Mount Rushmore. Elsewhere the spacecraft spotted bright crustal fractures crisscrossing older, darker ones, suggesting that the ice is being...
...cliche, but that may be the best explanation for what happened to Gayl Jones. The writer made her name in the mid-1970s with transfixing tales of sexual violence and madness, stories of women skating the edges of insanity and the men who shoved them toward thin ice. On Feb. 20, a similar tale seemed to unfold in Jones' home in Lexington, Ky. When police tried to serve a warrant from a 15-year-old weapons conviction on her husband Bob Jones, he barricaded the couple inside their house and threatened that they would kill themselves. Three hours later, after...