Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to complete and was constructed in large part with tools he made especially for building the units. "The Master Chassis" is the only part of the sculpture with a motor. It is powered by a small, four cylinder engine that is radio controlled. The frame and motor weigh only 460 pounds, and the entire structure is 141 inches long but only 27.5 inches high...
...leaders of the two great Communist powers? To a country that takes pride in being practical, the Viet Nam dilemma seemed insoluble and ultimately too expensive by any reckoning. Morally expensive, as well. Too many memories, from My Lai to the massive bombing of last Christmas, would continue to weigh on the American spirit...
...defeating Ali, the champion had defended his title only twice, dispatching a pair of unknowns with less than his usual ferociousness. Was Frazier his old devastating self? Did he deserve to be the favorite? Frazier thought so. "I'm gonna come out smokin'," he snarled during the weigh-in. "Smokin'," countered Foreman, "is hazardous to your health...
...film intellectual says flatly that "the dolly shot is a moral statement." By such a playful standard, Bertolucci would be Pascal. No one since the late Max Ophuls (Lola Monies) has moved the camera quite so exuberantly, and with such easy, fluid symmetry. Such a luxurious style can sometimes weigh heavily on the material; in The Spider's Stratagem it complements the material, indeed reinforces it. Tara, its name recalling Gone With the Wind and conjuring up phantoms of romantic fiction, is turned into a single huge stage set on which the plot to conceal the treachery is daily...
...streets of Paris are a gold mine for Frederic's greedy eyes. But he has no pressing moral problems. Plain bourgeois doldrums weigh down his pillowed existence. He paces his office like a lover distracted over his erratic Chloe, and fails to see that his abstemious attention is a species of marital disloyalty. He has confused the word and the deed, the moral letter and the moral spirit, and invented a crisis out of wineglass stuff. And for-all the difference it would have made, he might as well have slept with Chloe. It is a very Catholic confusion. Chloe...