Word: weaknessness
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"I think it's a glaring weakness in someone's personality if they let food affect them so much," he continues. "I look upon the whole habit as a vice that's just as bad as heroin addiction."
Patrick Toomey '84: I think we definitely have to negotiate from a position of strength or the negotiations will be impossible. I think that the Soviet leadership doesn't respect weakness or even parity; they respect strength.
The answer is probably yes on both counts. Giamatti has a highly refined passion for paradox, a humanist sensibility that is both invoked and evoked repeatedly in every essay, and on nearly every page of this elegantly written book. Winning and bit-time athletics have apparently gone hand-in-hand...
Indeed, so powerful has that image been that one sometimes forgets how splendid he has been as a character actor. The military martinet of Fort Apache, the cold-eyed outlaw of Once Upon a Time in the West, even the hilariously befuddled herpetologist "Hopsy" Pike of The Lady Eve-they...
The sexpot sister Meg (Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental...