Word: weighted
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...incident by itself would matter all that much. But the weight of the total may exceed the sum of the parts. It seems to be the old problem of the magnifying effect of the White House. Richard Sennett, who has written an intriguing book on "the fall of public man," would perhaps see the White House problem as part of the larger trouble of a people who no longer believe that their public personalities should be based on what they would like to be rather than what they truly are. We are poorer, says Sennett, because we have abandoned control...
Finally, such a victory would call into question France's role in Europe and in the world, because an economically weakened and politically impotent country would have no weight in international discussions...
...Ajootian took a fourth in the 35-lb. weight throw with a 61-ft. 5-1/4 in. toss, while John Chafee registered a fourth...
...WEIGHT THROW--1. Ajootian (H) 59-11 1/2 2.Lenz (H) 59-10 1/2 3. Mancino (P) 58 4. McDevitt...
...powerlessness and futility of his characters, like Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot, but without the existential mantle that cloaks Becket's fine work and gives it its legitimacy, Mamet simply cannot pull it off. There is just not enough of a plot to give his idea any weight, and what little there is is far too flimsy to bear the tensions Mamet imposes. A tacked-on existential conclusion to a mundane drama about the values of the urban lower class is just too much of a contrast. Had Mamet stuck to one theme or another, the conclusion might...