Word: hefted
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...critics say some of this success is due not to globalization but to the local political clout these large firms wield, yielding favorable government treatment--everything from default forgiveness on bank loans to airbrushing competition regulations. Their heft makes them effective bullies. After Fox took office in 2000, promising a new era, several younger Cemex execs decided to take him at his word and struck out on their own, competing against their former employer by importing cheaper cement from Russia. Their boat got tied up in every port, and after months of harassment, they took their business to Africa. Oligopolistic...
...government’s financial heft affords it a unique position to place low-income nations on universities’ radar screens. On Sept. 29, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced a bill that would require federally funded universities to make the drugs developed from their discoveries available to poor countries at a low cost...
...than that, since they're more integral to character and plot, like Mary's sprightly, perfectly apropos opening number, Practically Perfect. The show strikes a nice balance between stage dazzle--avant-garde choreographer Matthew Bourne brings statues to life and defies gravity in more ways than one--and dramatic heft with a script (by Gosford Park screenwriter Julian Fellowes) that goes beyond the movie, adding material from other Travers stories...
...golden boy like Beatty would have had the clout and cojones to make a 3-hr. romance about U.S. communist John Reed and his love affair with both Bolshevism and feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Beatty set out to make a great movie and came damn close, finding epic heft in Reed's trek from Greenwich Village to Red Square. On its 25th anniversary, the film looks even better. Jack Nicholson is a sexy standout as Louise's lover Eugene O'Neill...
...that Saw, let alone either of its sequels, is within hailing distance of a masterpiece. A mind game like this requires good actors to give it heft and plausibility. I'm not asking for today's equivalents of Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, the stars of the Sleuth movie, but there's more to acting, even horror movie acting, than screaming in agony and shouting in rage. Whannel (who is charm personified when chatting about the film on the DVD featurette) and Elwes can't manage the crucial middle range of emotions the two men have to feel...