Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...willing suspension of disbelief is necessary from the very outset of "A Family Thing," with its unlikely pairing of Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones as brothers. Unfortunately, an improbable premise is not the movie's only problem: despite the weight of its two lead actors, it ultimately fails to achieve any lasting emotional impact...
...Milken's angst, however, he has never had an overt symptom of advanced prostate cancer, no pain in his bones, weight loss, chronic fatigue or problems with urination. "That's one of the things that's scary about this," he says. "Had I not had a PSA, I would not have known...
BRUSSELS: The European Commission decided Wednesday to uphold a ban on the export of British beef to the 15-nation European Union and third countries. The decision followed a period of indecision and retraction earlier this week as Europe and Britain reeled under the weight of consumer panic over "mad cow disease", a bovine brain sickness which may be linked to a similar illness in humans. The prospect of a ban has already devastated the England's cattle industry, reports TIME's Helen Gibson: "As national hamburger chains like McDonald's and Burger King canceled their British beef orders, cattle...
...around 1827, has a wiry inquisitorial line and a fierce truth to the motif that remind one, without exaggeration, of Durer. In landscape his hand roamed free, giving the foreground hill in Volterra, the Citadel, 1834, a lively splotching of indeterminate dark scrub whose excited marks carry more visual weight than the distant hill town. But his early portraits are maladroit Ingres, and he was almost incapable of bringing off large biblical or literary compositions: his late painting of Dante and Vergil menaced by the she-wolf at the edge of the Dark Wood...
...which shows that the average age at which people wed has climbed to a record level--26.7 for men and 24.5 for women. Never-married adults now make up a quarter of the over-18 population. That's 44.2 million people with enough free time to drink double their weight in coffee daily, get precision haircuts that fall rakishly into the eyes without totally obstructing vision, and watch a show on which people do all of the above. When they do finally wed maybe the Starbucks generation will cause less pain in their marriages than the yuppies...