Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DURING ONE of the heavier-handed scenes in Wedding in Blood, Stephane Audran, playing the wife of a boorish and corrupt French politician, appears in her town's library to donate a volume on ethics. The librarian, impressed by the tome's weightiness and its complicated-sounding title, accepts the book and remarks, "It must be very difficult." Audran's precocious little daughter, who understands the surface of things better than any adult character, closes this little lesson on ethics by chiming in with her typically mocking tone, "Oh yes, very difficult...
Sure, there was the IRA regatta in Syracuse, which called itself a national championship. But many of the heavier heavies--Harvard included--were consistent no-shows, suffering under the burden of final exams and leaving the laurels to such lesser powers as Wisconsin, who took the crown this spring...
Lloyd began as the insouciant star of the courtroom. The atmosphere be came heavier last week as the plaintiffs' attorney Edward Ross pressed on with the contention that Marlborough, anticipating a preliminary injunction barring further sales on consignment without the court's permission, had cooked up some complex deals to remove 35 Rothkos from the court's jurisdiction. Not so, said Lloyd, producing documents to show that in January and February of 1972 - months before the injunction was is sued in June - he had sold the 35 Rothkos to four wealthy collectors, including 20 to Italian Industrialist...
...project with its West German and Italian partners before the next phase is authorized. But in British aviation circles at least, the plane is regarded as superior to such U.S. offerings as the F-15, F-14 and F5. Says a high R.A.F. officer: "The American planes are either heavier and more expensive or cheaper and less effective...
...lonely, it never showed-except, perhaps, when he was backstage waiting to go on, looking weary from the day's travel, the bags under his eyes heavier than usual. Out in the spotlight, he was a new man, the fingers dancing merrily over the piano keys, the face lit up with joy. Duke Ellington once said, "My reward is hearing what I've done." It was everybody else's reward...