Word: flaws
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...pain. One such moment is when she watches her son drive away on his bike after he turns down her offer for a ride. Her performance is the lens through which viewers can connect to the family’s struggle. Ultimately, the movie’s major flaw is its overly complex Judaic discourse. Saul’s long lectures transport you home to Harvard with hinged chalkboards and wildly gesturing professors. And without the threat of a final exam looming over our heads, there’s nothing to force a student audience to pay attention...
...video’s deepest flaw is its utter lack of plausibility; in the real world, everyone else depicted in the video would probably rather be caught dead than on camera dancing to her ABBA-sampling pop single, no matter its catchiness...
...erudition and scope, Illicit has one vexing flaw: its lack of substantial original research. Na?m is an armchair tour guide, relying mostly on well-worn news stories and official reports. For a book on the underground trade in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Illicit is disappointingly dry. The climax is not a memorable glimpse inside a smuggling ring, but a raft of policy suggestions such as better coordination among government agencies and improved international cooperation?hardly page-turning stuff. Still, Na?m succeeds in presenting a clear account of how illicit commerce works and what its consequences are. In doing...
...Boston. Even this lower figure is too high. Dining hall staff will renegotiate their contract this spring. Right now, their wages are far lower than the wages paid to janitors. If janitors are granted $17 an hour, then why should dining hall employees demand anything less? This is the flaw inherent in the concept of a living wage. It calculates the money necessary to support a decent lifestyle independent of the nature of the actual work being done, and independent of the compensation that the labor market demands. In practice, if Harvard were to grant a living wage, it would...
...That image of Lincoln is historically accurate, according to Joshua Wolf Shenk ’93, author of the new book “Lincoln’s Melancholy.” But Shenk argues that, instead of being a tragic flaw, the Great Emancipator’s depression was a key source of his success...