Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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About a week later, I had a French oral exam with a young woman professor. After I had translated some English sentences into the preterite, she told me I had done well, and then that I looked too thin...
...lost a lot of weight lately," she said in her thick accent. "You are getting too thin. I know girls like to diet, but you should not. You look unhealthy. There is no fat on your face," she said, stroking...
...them from start to finish in the open air. In fact, nearly all his work from the '90s was elaborately "harmonized," finished in the studio. One has only to look to see why: the surface is so built up with grainy scumbling over creamy licks of the brush, with thin glazes on top, that the layers needed plenty of time to dry. He would line up the growing series of canvases in the studio and stress the differences between one image and the next by incessant retouching...
...that things had always been done that way. Today practically everything is designed. Record-album covers and annual reports and dog-food labels are self-consciously wrought and overwrought, fussed with endlessly to get the connotations just right. This very page, with its six typefaces in ten sizes and thin horizontal and vertical rules and several photographs, did not come about by accident but as a calculated compromise among the competing demands of marketing, expediency, tradition...
...Miramax began to attract attention with its clever marketing of The Thin Blue Line, a stylish documentary about a wrongful murder conviction in Dallas, and for distributing the Swedish epic Pelle the Conqueror. While profits were modest, Pelle went on to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, while The Thin Blue Line became a news sensation: it helped persuade a Texas court to throw out the murder conviction...