Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mars has an atmosphere; therefore it must have weather. Starting with this thesis-as thin as the Martian atmosphere itself-Seymour L. Hess of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz, set out to chart Martian weather. He reports his findings in the current Sky and Telescope...
...composer who can lure Manhattan critics into taking a 30-minute train ride to the suburbs to hear a piece of music must have something on the ball. Blade-thin, Manhattan-born Norman Dello Joio apparently is one composer who has. When New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College put on his first opera last week, Manhattan critics and admirers traveled right out to Bronxville to hear...
...chiseled and his acting too low-keyed for all the blood & thunder that goes on in The Sundowners or any other formula horse opera. What he seems to need to show whether he can act-and what Hollywood will probably eventually give him-is a role as a brooding, thin-skinned young man being mistreated by some such screen hussy as Bette Davis...
...though Earl Montgomery, Bryant Holiday, Eleanor MacLean, Leslie Paul, Naomi Raphaelson, and Jeanne Tufts all perform well. Kenneth Scott was imperturbably droll, though silent, in the part of Balthazar, a little colored boy who attends Sparkish (in its zest for "business" the Brattle group created this role out of thin...
...Cambridge resident, was walking down Linnaean Street with his date. A man quietly crept up behind them and before Jones could do anything he was forced to turn down Gray Street at gun point. On Gray Street a second man, his face covered by a white handkerchief with a thin brown border, joined the first thief. They took $15 from Jones' wallet leaving him with $10; they asked for both captives' watches, but then returned them...