Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of post-modern self-consciousness, such as when a merry mechanic sings that he can't stand singing and that he much prefers movies without singing, or in the final shot of the gas station marquis, which reads not "Cherbourg" but "Cherbourgeosie". Luckilly, theoretical issues like these cannot weigh down this proudly frothy film. Demy's Cherbourg was nearly lost to this world when the original negatives were damaged and the prints all faded to unintelligablity--his widow and the score's composer Legrand remastered "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" from surviving remnants. How grateful we should...
...most famous Olmec artifacts are 17 colossal stone heads, presumed to have been carved between 1200 B.C. and 900 B.C. Cut from blocks of volcanic basalt, the heads, which range in height from 5 ft. to 11 ft. and weigh as much as 20 tons, are generally thought to be portraits of rulers. Archaeologists still have not determined how the Olmec transported the basalt from quarries to various settlements as far as 80 miles away--and, in San Lorenzo, hoisted it to the top of a plateau some 150 ft. high. "It must have been an incredible engineering effort," Joralemon...
...should be noted, however, that these "sisters" are also world-class competitors, that to win their places in the boat they spent months competing against one another in pairs, that most of them are more than 6 ft. tall and weigh upwards of 160 lbs. And that things can get ugly when they're not moving water together. "Rowing is the most noncontact sport around," says Betsy McCagg, "so when we get in where we can actually touch each other, all hell breaks loose. We used to play basketball, but we're all centers. You'd get seven people...
After five years, Rudenstine is attempting to weigh his charismatic personality against his shortcomings in leadership, while his legacy as a Harvard president hangs in the balance...
...decision to matriculate is obviously affected by a number of factors. For many, college costs weigh heavily...