Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joey is already full of vigorous, upbeat tunes. Why this play needs the added song, except perhaps to offset the weight of the two new ballads, I do not know...
Dartmouth crossed the line in 5:34.26, but heavy-weight coach Harry Parker said the margin was actually much closer...
...they keep asking privately are, Do you think George is ill? How serious is it? And what is it?" "It was much more than fatigue or preoccupation with other things," says a British observer. "He looked and acted ill." Fortunately for Bush, his pals' impressions don't carry much weight with the U.S. electorate. But he might want to schedule some of those overseas calls when he's feeling in top form...
...semifinal game between baseball's archrivals, Cuban first baseman Lourdes Gourriel -- on his way back to a bankrupt island -- wished American Phil Nevin every success in the major leagues. By week's end, all those who came were leaving with some such memento: with a large round weight around their necks, or a picture of themselves with Magic Johnson; with shaved heads or ruptured tendons. Barcelona has long been famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight converge. Now, to the famous roll call of its industrious dreamers -- Casals and Picasso, Miro...
This intensity can be overwhelming. The novel is structured as a screenplay, and while this form is strikingly visual, it also makes for a jerky and disjointed narrative. At times, the story line seems about to collapse under the weight of all the explosive jokes and images. But what Negrohobia lacks in coherence it make up for in energy and inventiveness. James pulls no punches with his caricatures; both black and white concepts of race are adeptly, savagely satirized. He gets in especially sharp jabs at Black nationalism with his screeching Uncle H. Rap Remus, a preacher who leads...