Word: flaccidities
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...latest model from the Gates fiction factory, Angel of Light, is an anthology of the author's excesses. The flaccid, irritating soap opera is jerry-built around the hatreds of a wealthy family in Washington, D.C. A senior bureaucrat, Maurice Halleck, head of the "Commission for the Ministry of Justice," has died, apparently by suicide, after seeming to confess to bribe taking. Halleck's two nearly grown children, drug-frazzled Kirsten and lard-witted Owen, vow to wreak vengeance on their gorgeous mother Isabel, and their father's best friend from boyhood, whom they take...
...where the only thing they make better than anywhere else is Charles and Lady Di memerobilia--and British government--where the loonies of the far right and far left clash in semi-comic fury--the presumption of British omnipotence at the heart of all Bond pictures seems a little flaccid. But Bond goes after that transmitter with his usual gusto; and you can guess if he gets...
...FIREWORKS, the very people at whom the charges were aimed--school administrators--haven't taken WEAL or the students seriously. Realizing the Department of Labor won't fine the school in gross violation of flaccid affirmative action laws, they have skirted the issue, dishing out occasional tidbits of reform to pacify student activists and federal investigators without really changing anything. They have sought refuge under charges that WEAL's statistics are inaccurate--ignoring that even the school's slightly amended figures give it a shamefully small minority and woman population. They have hidden behind claims that they made "serious offers...
...opted for baseball, and last week the decision paid off handsomely. After languishing for eight years with the flaccid Padres, Winfield, 29, signed a contract with the New York Yankees that will reportedly bring him as much as $20 million over the next ten years. His agreement with the Yankees, by far the richest contract since baseball's free-agent era began in 1976, makes him the highest-paid American athlete. Houston Astro Pitcher Nolan Ryan's $1 million a year and fellow Yankee Outfielder Reggie...
...From moment to moment, Just Tell Me is a somber and confusingly plotted story of corporate power struggles, a syrupy account of a love triangle, and a sloppy satire of show business-rather like Lumet's Network. There are still some bright moments, but they are separated by flaccid, poorly connected scenes that go nowhere at great length...