Word: effectless
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Nobody expected an effectless transition, but nobody quite expected the farce now being played in Chicago. After only two weeks into Harold Washington's four-year term as Chicago's first black mayor, the city government was stalemated. When Washington, a Democrat elected despite opposition from his party's old guard, threatened to make good on his inaugural promise-"Business as usual will not be accepted by the people"-the city's Democratic political Establishment came together in a new, sometimes unseemly vigor, determined to outmaneuver and outbellow the antimachine mayor. To paraphrase the 1955 words...
...system will also allow the programming in the more effectless...
...into paroxysmal eye twitchings. Inspector Clouseau has never wavered in his conviction that he is the world's greatest detective. It is this blithe, impenetrable side of Sellers, pared down and exhibited with art old master's exquisitely crafted minimalism, that is perfectly stated in the character of poor, Effectless Chance. Sellers has created a figure subtly different from, perhaps more generally appealing than, Kosinski's original...
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