Word: flaws
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...media handled those who questioned the balance of their coverage with a pat analysis: Dean brought it all on himself with a single character flaw, his “anger.” Never mind that they found exactly zero meaningful examples of Dean’s supposed short fuse—no instances of the doctor having blown up at family or employees in Vermont’s government. Still, the media’s team of pop psychologists had already certified him incurably “angry.” Their distorted case against Dean seemed closed when...
...thing such an effort must avoid at all costs is simply aping the movie - precisely the flaw of When Harry Met Sally. The film gave you fantasy visions of Manhattan: Central Park in the autumn, the famous Shakespeare & Co. bookstore and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This production is so cramped by the stage that you feel like you're in a Manhattan apartment; Central Park is strangely depicted by giant falling leaves projected onto the back wall. Loveday Ingram's production, with its single white-room set, tries to find a cinematic fluidity using sliding walls to cut between...
Kimmelman initially dismissed the final entries as a “disappointment” and “unmemorable,” suggesting that the populism of the process was its flaw and that the memorial’s design should be limited to entrants of the jury’s choosing. What Kimmelman proudly touts as “elitism,” Van Valkenburgh views as problematic. “Excellence isn’t necessarily the consequence of either picking a star or of a public process, but the consequence of the evolution of the design which...
...have to slow down the ball,” sophomore point guard Michael Beal said. “That was our fatal flaw against Penn. That was our fatal flaw against Brown...
...Breaking Windows? Already scrambling to close a security flaw in its latest operating-system release, Microsoft was investigating how some 15% of its Windows 2000 source code was leaked to file-swapping Internet sites, making it potentially vulnerable to hackers and rivals...