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Students using the rooms might find the fact that the coffee machine located in the greenhouse coffee shop on the first floor of the Science Center is out-of-order, a slight drawback. Seven out of ten choices in the candy machine are also sold...
...something like that on Martin's first, and so far only, record, "Let's Get Small." That's the main drawback of the album, which is very funny in places. "Let's Get Small" was recorded live during a performance at the Boarding House in San Francisco. The effect of Martin knocking over his mike is just not the same on a record as it is when you see him do it. And the faces Martin makes as he plays the banjo are very hard to imagine when you're sitting in your living room listening to the record...
...advantages of the Crimson novelty, Kleinfelder said there is a drawback in that the team has to adjust to itself. "In asking for a pass, a player is used to having it come from the right side; but with all the lefties, the passes will be thrown from the other side," she said. This difficulty will be especially evident when the women throw around a defender because the pass will come around the left side of the opponent rather than the right side...
...answer might lie in the fact that the primary virtue of the film--its celebration of innocence--also presents something of a drawback to the filmmaker; until the romance starts to go awry, there's not much to The Lacemaker. Goretta has established the mood through a number of endearing images: Pomme running to the salon with three melting ice cream cones, trying to keep them from dripping; Pomme interrupting a walk on the beach to brush off a sea shell; Pomme, still a virgin, lying nude in bed, her nightgown spread over the covers...
...medication does not help everyone, and in the 1960s physicians began turning to a more powerful weapon?me-thylsergide maleate (Sansert), a chemical kin of LSD. One drawback: it must be used cautiously because of its occasionally serious side effects (hallucinations, nausea, vascular disease...