Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guiding light of the Rolling Stones. If he has any identity apart from that, it is as a pop icon, one who wears his accumulating years and history with panache -- an Annie Leibovitz picture of Dorian Gray. No wonder, on this third solo attempt, he can put so much weight and irony into these lines from I've Been Lonely for So Long: "Everybody's throwin' rocks in my bed/ Just can't seem to get ahead in life/ Nothin' I do seems to turn out right/ Somebody help...
...American politics. BOILING POINT: REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, AND THE DECLINE OF MIDDLE-CLASS PROSPERITY (Random House; $23) is not as boldly predictive as his earlier books: he compares this nation's fate to that of 17th century Holland and late 19th century England -- two economic powerhouses that declined under the weight of indebtedness at home and overexpansion abroad -- only to suggest later that the parallels may not hold up. But Phillips' statistics and his pictures of suburbia provide a rich backdrop to last November's election -- an instant context for understanding the mixture of volatility and sobriety that characterized voters...
Harvard needed every point in the heavier weight class matches, the strength of the Tiger team...
...lightweight members of the squad pulled more than their weight in the Crimson effort, building a 17-0 lead in the early going, a lead which Harvard would not relinquish despite a strong Princeton comeback...
Wrestling is a tough sport to begin with. The rigorous matches, the pain of "sucking" weight, the notoriously difficult practices all combine to make wrestlers a special breed of athletes...