Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Halverson said the flaw in this reasoning is that it assumes property taxpayers should only pay according to the city services they use--which would prevent transfer of wealth from more affluent property owners to needy individuals in poorer neighborhoods...
Unfortunately, the strength of Chick's performance highlights the play's greatest flaw. A drama so focused on the plight of one charismatic individual has difficulty sustaining interest when that character is not involved in the on-stage action. Chick's impassioned acting enhances this contradictory aspect of the play--he is so absorbing that the scenes in which he is not involved appear flat...
...ourselves: baseball is a business." Indeed it is, and Comiskey has 93 luxury sky boxes renting for up to $90,000 a year to prove it. The steeply pitched upper deck, elevated over three levels of luxury seating, invites a remake of Vertigo. Comiskey's other flaw is a love for blandness, rejecting the odd angles or idiosyncrasies that add character to a ball park...
...worst flaw may be a rah-rah jingoism that informs some of his pieces, like the one in which he cheers the fall of the Berlin Wall. "The privileges of liberty and the sanctity of the individual went out and kicked some butt," he says. Or it may be that he feels no compunction to propose any answers to the problems he raises. Or perhaps it's that he often invokes the "I'm-just-kidding" defense as an all-purpose shield. But, hey, who can hold a grudge for long against a guy who explains that the Ottoman Empire...
...like you?" to the bitchy Monica. When downcast, Maggie does not lash out but retreats to her room, where yet another chapter ends with quiet tears or staring at the ceiling. She is someone waiting to be -- a writer is hinted, maybe even a columnist. Quindlen's flaw is one of meticulousness: the smart energy of her journalist's voice is missing. But surely she knows that good novels have been written at kitchen tables...