Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe in the strength of symbols, in the weight of words as well as actions. I wanted, at that moment in the darkness, to trust in the reality of a future where fear of violation does not exist. I wanted both public and private spaces to be areas of safety. At the same time, it was almost enough to know that I was with other people who shared that hope, and who were fighting for its fulfillment...
...advantage in times of peace. The West has long wanted the Kremlin to fear that a Soviet attack on Europe, even with conventional weapons, might provoke American nuclear retaliation. That fear, in turn, is supposed to deter the Soviets from bullying Western Europe militarily or throwing its considerable weight around politically...
...told the women to place their hands lightly on the men's shoulders and the men to put their hands on the women's backs. And, while he emphasized "lightly" to the women--saying that in this day of equality they could hold their own arm's weight--he had stricter advice on "close position" etiquette...
...inch every year. The city is built over hundreds of feet of soft black mud, deposited there, over thousands of years, by the Mississippi. The mud comes from the Midwest, all the way uup to Minnesota, along with the tourist hordes who contribute their dollars and their considerable collective weight to the city's inexorable descent towards Australia. When we were there, mind you, most of the buildings were still very much visible. The locals, for their part, seemed unconcerned about the dreadful fate awaiting them in just a few brief moments of geological time. The NCAA Final Four games...
...more fully in Page, Arizona, August 1983, his admiring picture of a woman presiding on the high ground overlooking the mobile-home encampment where she lives. The metal cartons behind her may not look like much, but her own satisfaction is not to be denied. She has a mythic weight, as well as a bit of the literal kind, and her sly smile makes a strong case in favor of whatever it is that accounts for her contentment. When people spread into the landscape, who is to draw the limits? Sternfeld's picture may not answer the question...