Word: weakest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Disturbing the Universe unveils Dyson's far-reaching ideas for the future. "I am obsessed with the future," he writes, and then offers the imaginative products of this obsession: clades and clones, interstellar colonizations and "thought experiments." There is even a little theoretical physics. But this is the weakest part of the book. It is more science fiction than science...
...weakest tracks on The Long Run suffer from the same malady as "Greeks"--the band's unfamiliarity with new styles. The Eagles are good at solid lyrics and sing-along tunes, but they have trouble trying to create the more ambitious moods they strive for in cuts like "Teenage Jail" and "The Disco Strangler." The problem here is that the band buries its talents in an attempt to say something new; the messages are too specific, the music too strong...
Director Greg Delawie has let all the lady's flabby flesh burst through her corset. He retains unaltered the play's weakest scenes, and even attempts to squeeze a size-14 chorus on the size-6 Dunster stage. The cast gamely bounces around but constantly risk stubbing toes on the furniture. When it isn't under orders to move, it sits blankly on the stage, obscurred from the view of everybody sitting farther back than the third...
...support to continuation of rent control. The other councilor Sullivan might draw votes from is Mary Ellen Preusser. "If he knocks someone out, it will be another CCA candidate--they all draw from the same pool of supporters," one observer predicted last week, although the possibility that the weakest conservative could fall also exists...
...different versions of such measures have been the rule in South Korea, while they are a relatively recent exception in the Philippines. Similarly, Thailand for decades has run on a mixture of monarchy, military oligarchy and a mostly rubber-stamp parliamentary system, with the last by far the weakest ingredient...