Word: slight
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...hands of its legions of devotees, the game has become an expressive language they can use to tell stories about their own lives. Briar Sauro, 27, a school librarian in Brooklyn, N.Y., readily admits to having a "slight Sims obsession," i.e., on a good day she limits herself to two or three hours. "It can take up my whole evening. I don't do anything else." She experiments with using The Sims to "re-create real-life interpersonal relationships." Sauro has created an entire Sims world full of her actual friends and family. "The first year I had the game...
...Cloud Nine" and "Top Girls" glory -and David Hare's "The Breath of Life," a star vehicle for Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. (Would you import the Irishman Brian Friel to join this exalted company? I wouldn't, quite, but Friel had a new piece too: "Afterplay," a slight memory-play with old charmers John Hurt and Penelope Wilton as characters from Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters...
...going to happen, who’s going to play where, which is a good situation to have,” Bajwa said. “We know that Louisa’s No. 1 and Lindsey’s 2, and then there’s a slight drop. But, that drop isn’t as big as it once...
...until NATO member Turkey accepts an agreement that would allow the E.U. access to NATO assets. But Turkey doesn't want to say yes or no until it gets word in December on its prospects for launching negotiations to one day join the E.U. Such squabbles demonstrate the slight air of distrust among some Europeans about the U.S. push for NATO transformation. Capabilities are all well and good - if they materialize. But there are still nagging questions about the specific missions a transformed NATO will be called on to perform. More war-fighting prowess might assure NATO a role...
...minutes into the second period on the power play, Sweet perfectly deflected a Ruggiero shot from the point past Ferguson. Within the next minute, Sweet took the puck into the zone, and with a slight fake she caught Ferguson off guard and slipped the puck past...