Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for a third member of the cockpit crew, creating a cost-cutting advantage for airlines struggling for profits in the age of deregulation. Airbus also boasts that the plane is 40% more fuel efficient than older, comparably sized models like the Boeing 727 because of its lighter weight and streamlined profile...
...shrift, even as Mexicans were streaming into California to tend moguls' gardens and kitchens. When Latin actors did seize center screen, it was in art-house fodder like Alambrista!, Zoot Suit, El Norte and Crossover Dreams. These films meant well, but they rarely did well. They staggered under the weight of their liberal messages like a postman with the A.C.L.U. on his route. So many good intentions were riding on these films that they became morality plays, long on the uplift, short on subtlety or underdog smarts. They sculpted dramatic archetypes into heroic stereotypes -- folk art for guilty connoisseurs...
...conversion, the U.S. was shaped by Protestant individualism. America has believed its national strength derives from separateness, from diversity. The glamour of the U.S. is the Easter promise: you can be born again in your lifetime. You can separate yourself from your past. You can get a divorce, lose weight, touch up your roots...
...again, Tony "Two-Ton" Tubbs was no Michelangelo's David either. When Tubbs fought Tyson in Japan a few moths ago, it looked like he had one too many pound of sushi and washed it down with a keg of Sapporo. But you couldn't remind Tony about his weight problem. He thought he could beat the champ...
...magazines of the 1920s, would once again be a trendsetter was exactly what Newhouse and Conde Nast Editorial Director Alexander Liberman hoped when they revived the long- defunct magazine in 1983. But after one of the most heralded debuts in recent publishing history, the new magazine collapsed under the weight of its own pretension. Eleven months and two editors later, Newhouse and Liberman hired Brown, an Oxford graduate whose spunky editing had turned around the British satirical monthly Tatler...