Word: droop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movements of the dancers notable Paul Garland as Mercury, whose control and coordinator could send a shiver up the spine. Dark and light wash the stage in successive stages of mind. At last the ensemble unfolds in one amazing effect all the nymphs of Shades encircle Persephone go droop like the fronds of a dead flower and all stylization evaporates in a transport of pure and true musical emotion...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; Iynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam No. 40. Then our lynx eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The twentieth century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now one such might be droll enough...
...really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing. . . Knock-kneed, droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong...
...more beseeching than stern reads: PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT. Next door, Gary Fricke says his furniture store lost money last year, and business this year is off another 50%. Mike Riemenschneider, who bought the town's Jack and Jill Supermarket in 1979, has watched sales droop 15%. Says Vernon Waterman of the farm-implement business he runs with his wife Margaret: "I'm surviving on service, but losing money every day. I'm barely in business, and it won't get any better until corn and soybean prices get better...
...head of a horse. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan passes a note to Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "We should be out swimming in that fountain." Haig scribbles back: "Yes, without all these clothes on." "I agree," Ronald Reagan signs on. Then, in full view of his colleagues, his eyelids droop, and the President of the United States dozes...