If pressed to mark the change exactly, Mr Stella dates it to the moment when a museum wall could no longer take the weight of one of his increasingly turbulent reliefs.
And what ambitious scale it is: each horse sculpture can weigh anything up to a ton (1, 000 kilograms), is 16-17 hands (around 5ft 11ins) tall and can easily take the weight of a "jockey" or two.
Take away the weight of the Capitals' history, and the team's plight doesn't look so dire.
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And while I was lucky to have loving grandparents who poured everything they had into helping my mother take care of us, I still felt the weight of my father's absence throughout my childhood.
We pull (the wings) up, pull them down, add weight to them and take them right to the point of breaking.
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Jenny Craig, Slim Fast and Weight Watchers take the top three spots by way of an aggregation of hundreds of published studies from the past six years.
On Saturday, veterinarians at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center surgically implanted a device at the base of his right hind leg to take weight off an abscess there.
This kept the weight under 2lbs, and still kept it thin enough to take advantage of our great Windows work for inking and give you a great inking experience (like pressure sensitive inking, ability to do kanji, great sketching).
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When the weight fell, they cheered with the hundreds of other folks who'd gathered to take in the spectacle.
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Participants were sent a text-message reminder of what they would have won had they shed the weight, which did spur some to take their diet up a notch.
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