Word: flaccid
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...forget it now, in the wake of victory (or what we used to think was victory) in the Gulf War, but Bush?s father?s speech in the fall of 1990 was flaccid by comparison. Delivered, eerily on 9/11/90, the speech was half about the coming Gulf War and half about deficit reduction. It attacked Saddam Hussein but also got into the minutiae of whether Congress should have an up or down vote on the budget resolution. This was better...
...fits and starts, inspired and inspiring. Newly emancipated and literate, she acquires, by virtue of what she calls her "crazy quilt" education, an arresting fictional presence. She can be blunt, circa the 1870s--"There is a lot of Indian in her nigger"--and sometimes poetic: "Mothers grow flaccid, rich in babylove, each baby taking some of the mother's beauty as if the baby knows it needs to protect its babyself by making Mama less kiss-daddy pretty." Why shouldn't the loyal slaves enshrined in the magnolia myth of GWTW, novel and film, be given their say? "Alice Randall...
...Census Bureau, by introducing its Check All That Apply option, did advance its stated belief that race is not a static concept. Critics of CATA see it variously as a threat to social justice in its perceived dilution of nonwhite constituencies, or as race obsessed, or as a flaccid nod to the burgeoning ranks of mixed-race Americans. But I think the Census people were savvy. Or, really, credit goes to their overseeing agency, the Office of Management and Budget, which is responsible for telling federal agencies how to use Census data in monitoring civil rights compliance. Now, when data...
...March, nearly 130% of GDP, the highest proportion in the developed world. That's just the worst of many problems: stocks are trading at their lowest levels since the 1980s bubble economy popped; industrial production declined more than 11% in January; banks are sitting on mountains of bad debt; flaccid consumer spending has left the country in a deflationary spiral...
...Stones in the studio recording Sticky Fingers. We see the machinations of the music industry attempting to alchemize the flailing fury of '60s rock 'n roll into cold cash. We see the Stones pensive and melancholy as they watch their own concert footage-including their own pitifully flaccid attempts to calm the crowd...