In nine volumes of poetry, and in numerous essays, speeches, and plays, he has documented life in a place most Americans think of in terms of sunblock and steel drums, and their own fantasies about slimming walks along the beach, limbo lessons, and rum drinks dressed with flowers.
"A tall slim, Frenchman walks in and steps up on to the dais.
Indeed, that's what the television ad for the pocket sari shows, ending with the smart slim woman walking away, dumping her frumpy old handbag behind.
The move deserves a close look, however, if only because it makes Mr. Slim a walking conflict-of-interest and a shareholder class-action suit waiting to happen.
Slim would walk around singing cockney songs like When Your Old Wedding Ring was New – and that song has stayed with me all my life.
"Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry", Wilde wrote to Lord Alfred once.
In her slim new novella, "Walks With Men," Ms. Beattie conjures New York in the 1980s, though it soon becomes clear that her narrator is looking back at that archaeological era through a rear-view mirror.
But even though he is so firmly in the biological camp of obesity researchers, he ascribes his own weight control to behavior, not microbes; he says he is slim because he walks five miles a day, lifts weights and is careful about what he eats.
Slowly, a slim middle-schooler walks to the front of the gym and makes a few school announcements and then strikes a small hand held chime.
She was very slim, and she walked like two snakes.
