Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Miro canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and Jacques Derrida in the same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither...
Talk about the weight of history. Visiting Kazakhstan last month, Michael Miklaucic of the International Law Institute, a Washington think tank, dropped in on a top parliament official involved in the drafting of the republic's new constitution. He found himself on the spot when his host took a call during their meeting. "So, Mr. Michael," said his host, suddenly placing his hand over the mouthpiece, "who should be commander-in-chief of armed forces? The President? Or Speaker of the parliament?" "I. . .I. . .I can tell you how it works in the U.S.," said Miklaucic. "But please...
Wrestlers often had to move up or down from their normal weight class to help fill out the team roster...
Cole finished third in what was widely regarded as the toughest weight class at Easterns, but was seventh in the balloting which selected six NCAA wild card entrants...
...women's side, Senior Co-captain Cathy Griffin placed third in the 20-lb. weight throw, with an effort of 53'3 3/4". Freshman Jennifer Kearney took eighth in the mile run, with a time...