Word: weightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
leaned its new weight on the daylight in the park...
Between workouts and weight-lifting, lockerroom meetings and training room time, equipmentmaintenance and treks across the river, athletessay they devote an average of 30 hours a week totheir sports in season...
...losing weight, but mainly to disprove that fat equals funny," said Abbott, offering the first of several clues that there might be more to the exile than might at first appear...
...Company She Keeps, The Group) was sexually brisk and unromantic. It is where many readers first encountered a young woman seduced by an attractive stranger without suffering any ill effect. At a time when the heavy moral lifting was thought best left to men, Arendt bench-pressed the weight of the world in books with such grave titles as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind. Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) gave the world a deeply disturbing concept, "the banality of evil." "Who does she think she is, Aristotle?" cracked an editor at Partisan Review...
...Missouri, only with more possibilities for ordering in ethnic food. After dinner, he is dropped off at a nondescript high-rise on the Upper West Side, with two bedrooms and no dining-room table. Having gone on numerous diets, he is now satisfied, he says, to "maintain" his current weight, which is one attitude the President might be sympathetic to. He doesn't go to museums, the theater or the movies. He prefers to buy videos rather than rent them, so he doesn't have to take them back. (His latest purchase was Philadelphia.) For a social life...