Word: hefting
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...precisely the kind of products that could release--faster than any judge--Redmond's iron grip on the software industry. By 2004, analysts expect this kind of cheap-and-easy surfing gadget to outsell PCs. In this market, the most unobtrusive operating system wins, and the feature-heavy heft that won the desktop wars for Microsoft becomes a liability. "Most of these devices have no need for a Windows experience," says Dan Kuznetsky, a system-software analyst at technology firm IDC. "Who needs a week-long training class to learn how to use a Web cell phone...
...regional calamity. Inferno is a book with the weight and density of one of those great 20th century works of broken-hearted testimony, of the Holocaust documentary Shoah or the string quartets of Shostakovich. With 382 black-and-white pictures spread across oversize pages, it has the heft of a gravestone, which is not so different from what it is, a cenotaph for the last victims of the 20th century. What it tells us is that history did not end with the conclusion of the cold war. It just moved to places where its worst work was harder...
...what's on Fox." Fifty women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach as he is." There was a "personality test," in which 10 semifinalists answered questions along the lines of how they'd spend his money...
...houses, think about his ability to hammer out alliances with young playwrights who can produce good plays that also have film potential," says Stephen Bannon, managing director of the investment bank SG Cowen, who advised Stoll Moss's parent company in the buyout. And Lloyd Webber has the financial heft to produce plays himself in his new properties rather than simply rent the spaces to independent producers...
...comfortable with Gustav Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). Domingo isn't quite high-strung enough for Mahler's angst-ridden emotional world, but he makes an impassioned impression all the same, and though he no longer has the brilliance and heft needed to sail effortlessly above the gigantic orchestra, who does? Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic provide solid support. A+ for effort...