Although his weight has sometimes been an issue, he looked remarkably slim Monday as he twirled a basketball and mingled with his new teammates and coaches.
(Stephen Holden) LANGHORNE SLIM (Saturday) A self-styled folksinger from Brooklyn, Langhorne Slim toys with backwoods iconography (he's not so dissimilar from, say, Bob Dylan), but his shambling country folk is genuinely rendered.
The qualities of a successful magazine editor — a slim, impenetrable day-to-night-to-day workhorse — make up one side of the coin whose other side is the Gothic monster-woman: not just svelte but underfed, not just alert but paranoid, not just professionally detached but aloof to any recognizable human emotion.
After the major indexes broke a three-day losing streak with slim gains Monday, stocks scuffled again on news that China tightened bank lending standards.
Despite the lingering uncertainy in the market, exchange-traded funds that focus on home builders made slim gains Tuesday.
Insurers, which lagged the broader market for much of 2009 owing to uncertainty over the path of reform, showed relatively slim declines Wednesday.
Meanwhile, economic data remains slim, until Friday's session, when the Commerce Department is set to release the preliminary Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter during the pre-market.
Prospects of meeting an EU deadline on 30 April for measures to reduce the budget deficit to 3% of GDP seemed slim until Thursday's surprise breakthrough.
Wall Street opened with slim gains Thursday, after a stronger pre-market advance was beaten back by a rising number of new jobless claims that caught investors by surprise.
Raven-Symone showed off a newly slim look Wednesday night at the People's Choice awards, but she's not happy about all the attention it's been getting her.
