Word: hefting
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...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...
...project to design a new Los Angeles headquarters for Universal Studios collapsed after the company decided, in the frenzy of media mergers, it needed its money elsewhere. From that experience he concluded that architecture was too slow for a marketplace in which the global conglomerates that have the heft for the big commissions emerge and disintegrate in less time than it takes to turn blueprints into buildings--usually about five years. But there was worse to come. Over the next few years, proposals to expand the Whitney Museum in New York City and reconfigure the Los Angeles County Museum...
...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...
...last quarter?may owe more to last year's bounteous monsoon than to enlightened business reform. But the BJP has had the wit to adapt its message of strident Hindu nationalism to a more mature one of prosperous peace with Pakistan and loud pride in India's growing economic heft...