Word: hefted
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...this is a dangerous vision for a poet. Wright forgets that poetry’s virtue—its saving grace—is particularity. Readers can access poetry’s meaning only through the nuances of the text, through the heft and rhythm of a single word...
Make a little extra dough through the Harvard Business School’s Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Just go to www.hbs.edu/cler, and you can rake in an average of $20-$25 per completed study, which will put a bit more heft in your pocket than the Psych Department’s Study Pool that only offers $5 for a 30-minute study. Plus, no creepy questions about your sex life. Sweet...
...Herren returns to the sharp, intricate rhythm collages that made him famous. “Security Screenings” builds its songs on looped samples, delicately intermeshed beats, and electronic flourishes, dipping in and out of new modes with each bar. The result carries both the heft of hiphop and the prettiness of indie electronic. The effect of this fusion can be disorienting, but in a way disorientation is precisely the point: in the opening track, “The Letter: P,” Herren sets up a snatch of movie dialogue, only to undermine and distort the voices...
...different. Onassis made no such provision," he said. "He didn't even name Christina as president." That's not a view Onassis' grandchild shares. With assets ranging from the shipping fleets to property in Paris, London and St. Moritz to development projects spanning the globe, the foundation has the heft and reach of a multinational corporation - and an idiosyncratic structure all its own. Athina's claim stems from the foundation's statutes, which state that a direct descendant of Onassis shall be eligible for the presidency upon reaching the age of 21. That provision was added by Christina...
...Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and lent her increasing heft to The Poseidon Adventure. But her ripest later role was as herself: a tell-all memoirist and rowdy talk-show guest who was still entertaining audiences by exasperating men. DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1997 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose vodka--with its frosted bottle...