Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Race, sexual orientation and gender need to be given more weight because they infiltrate an individual's lifestyle," Loo said...
...connect them with the Internet, or to more varied commercial services. France Telecom is struggling mightily to keep its Minitel lead, partly by forming strategic alliances with foreign communications groups (including AT&T, Sony, Motorola and Apple), but the French effort, like others in Europe, is burdened by the weight of the European Union's burgeoning bureaucracy, which is increasingly inserting barriers across the Continent's communications throughways...
...tantalizing combination of child and woman, Bobek can bat her eyelashes like a vamp and then screw up her face like a self-conscious kid. Her devil-may-care approach to training has blocked her progress for years. But with the Detroit-based Callaghan, she has settled down, losing weight and working diligently...
Dennehy is also unconvincing as Hugh, a brooding Lear figure who mourns the destruction of his community. Partly because of Friel's flimsy dialogue, Hugh's appeals lack the weight of his pivotal role in the play as the last stand against the encroaching English language...
...weight of the past anchors both operas. Born as an operetta and filled with nostalgia for the glorious frivolity of second Empire Paris, La Rondine at seems like a frothy escapist fantasy composed in the shadow of World War I. The opera's interest stems from the emotional counterpoint between the longing for an unattainable past and a deep melancholy about the possibility of translating this past into the future. A similarly valedictory sense marks the humor of Gianni Schicchi, which responds to the tradition of opera buffa and becomes, in a sense, the terminus of this tradition...