Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handwriting imitates printing, his close hatching resembles lithography, and his creatures, even his houseplants, pose like silent-movie actors. The combination of care and whimsy in his illustrations is delightful, even wonderful. Unfortunately, the comparative crudeness of the drawings in The Headless Bust is immediately noticeable. The lines are thicker, and the awkward delicacy of his figures is diluted...
...Sean: It's about an inch longer and thicker too. It's a bit denser than Fenway franks. And a little dryer. The skin's a little thicker...
...story is not dismaying because it suggests that white physicians are raving bigots who haven't progressed since the days when doctors routinely doubled or tripled the strength of X rays administered to blacks because they supposedly had thicker skin than Caucasians. To the contrary, what this study shows is the extent to which subconscious racist attitudes still afflict even highly educated, humane white people who sincerely believe they do not have a prejudiced bone in their body. In what might be called the Alfred E. Neuman syndrome--after the Mad magazine character whose doofus slogan was "What--me worry...
...call it, did get made and became a big Brit hit: $22 million so far, which puts it in the blockbuster class in the U.K. The movie may not go stratospheric here, if only because its East London accents are thicker than its hail of artillery. ("Americans will get used to the language," says Jason Flemyng, one of the film's flotilla of engaging young actors, "like we had to get used to Boyz N the Hood.") But LS&2SB has all the early signs of success. Tom Cruise's early enthusiasm for the film helped it land...
...phenomenon--some sort of Bermuda Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that's growing thicker and thicker--the lost follow-up. Meanwhile, at my wife's insistence, I drained the pipes...