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His review of Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary indicates that he (and whoever revised Bernstein's book) are behind the times on boxing weight classes: featherweight should precede lightweight , [and other principal divisions have been ignored].
Turning to Mr. Lawrence's remark that featherweight should precede lightweight , my listing them in the reverse order was done randomly and in no way implied how much a boxer or wrestler weighed.
With its featherweight premise, casually amoral heroes, and exotic locales, it conjures up an era (the '60s and '70s) when twisty, romantic heist pictures were routinely ground out as tax shelters--and sometimes cast with the producers' model girlfriends, so that expensive vacations could be written off, too.
They look like genuine flesh, blood, and cartilage, especially when they're clipped, and they literally add texture to effects that might have seemed, well, featherweight.
Joe and Katherine have featherweight significant others (Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear) who can be discarded at the narrative's convenience without muss or fuss.