Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitters who somehow never make the majors, and the .200 hitters who do. There is the strange case of the black athlete who could do everything-run, steal, hit, field-but who ducked from an inside pitch a microsecond too soon. His fear was his tragic flaw; beanball pitchers got the message and within a season drove the man from the game...
...future--Decter never suggests that there are people, yes, even a few that were in college during the dreaded 60s, who adjusted fairly well to reality. Her parents, as well as her children, are all failures. But if all the children are failures, there seems to be a logical flaw in her argument, as at least a few of the youth of the 60s were not of liberal backgrounds, and she will have to look to reasons outside the home to explain the dissatisfaction of an entire generation...
Therein lies the flaw in virtually all biographies of entertainers. Performance is a mysterious process, often beyond the comprehension of performer-and critic. That mystery is worth dissection; everything else is a banal fever chart of catcalls and triumphs...
Gamy Sexuality. Black claims that there is "a lot of Marilyn Monroe in me," but she disdains the traditional glamorizing process of Hollywood-all the makeup and surgery that can camouflage every flaw. She has capitalized on her defects as well as her virtues. Her image is to look scruffy and a little disassembled. Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness. Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors...
...committee seemed willing to forget the past-the man could, after all, change in the job-until the environmentalists found a serious flaw in Hathaway's case. His backers had widely distributed to Congress and the press a document listing the Governor's environmental accomplishments back home. Embarrassingly, of 23 such "achievements," the private Environmental Defense Fund discovered that most had either been forced on Wyoming by the Federal Government or were actually designed to weaken existing laws. Supporters of Hathaway also claimed that 49 Governors backed his nomination; under scrutiny, only 35 such endorsements turned...