Word: hefting
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...eight people, eight boats, three dogs and one monkey on a leash - together they assemble on a narrow island in the Seine to enjoy a summer?s day and the spectacle of one another. What?s wrong with this picture? From a distance some of the figures have the heft and stability of Mesopotamian statuary. But step closer, and they dissolve into a force field of bristling molecules. Step back again, and they also appear like paper cutouts, flat and stiff. Are they enjoying themselves or just impersonating themselves? It won?t do to ask the monumental couple...
...movie axioms don't translate to real life, but this one does. As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. That gives Tomorrow a lot more political heft than your average popcorn movie; and left-leaning political activists, Al Gore and Al Franken among them, are rallying around the film as a consciousness-raising tool. But wait a minute: that puts them in bed with Fox, the studio that produced the movie--Fox, as in right-leaning...
...June), which is chrome plated, carved out of solid brass--to eliminate structural seams that weaken over time--and accompanied by silicone-tipped brass earbuds. Sure, it basically performs the same functions as a run-of-the-mill $80 player, but its slick, cold body has a heft that's absolutely seductive...
Atkins' Endulge ice cream tastes like cardboard, but Klondike's CarbSmart bars taste like, well, Klondikes. The new line has a bit less heft, but who cares...
...quite human. He is increasingly possessed by the idea that there are zombies--actual, nonmetaphorical zombies--in his office. Kings of Infinite Space (the reference is to Hamlet) is social satire that slides smoothly and surreally into horror, and if it loses a little of its emotional heft in the process, you don't really miss it. The glee with which Hynes choreographs an in-office zombie-vs.-stapler fight scene is compensation enough...