The slender man stayed silent, raising a gloved hand in greeting.

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And then through the door, the figure of a slender man with a long white beard and a stack of RFCs in his hands showed up.

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Already, in May 2011, a liberal group called the Agenda Project created a television ad that showed a slender man in a business suit pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair through a scenic park.

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The split and several recent deaths of people close to him sent Linklater, a 6-foot-3-inch slender man with nervous energy and a remarkably thick thatch of brown hair, into a dark period that fueled his first play.

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And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs.

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By using DiCaprio, and then aging him with prosthetic makeup, Eastwood lets us see how a slender, good-looking young man might thicken and coarsen with years and power.

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He was no longer the slender boy who had enlisted nine years earlier but a thickset man, with shaggy hair and an untamed beard.

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