Word: flaccidities
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...flaccid, middle-aged cop (Paul Suchecki) glibly compares the number of used cars in a lot to the quantity of hemorrhoids or crotch hairs he has. This tally isn't his only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
This is a dissertation on the law at the Supreme Court level, but within the province of dramatic jurisprudence it is a draggy, flaccid, unconvincing brief. First Monday in October is having its premiere at the Cleveland Play House, and if Jean Arthur and Melvyn Douglas were not in it, the play's obituary might well be written at the same time...
...time is the not so distant future, when nearly 1 million hungry refugees from the Ganges commandeer 100 rusty ships-heavily freighted with symbolism and exiles-and set sail for the promised land of Europe. The white Christian world is a flaccid parody of its once dominant self, sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and "all that brotherhood crap." When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d'Azur, the French are so "mucked up with brotherly love" that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper...
...small role calls for or can sustain. John V. Lindsay plays a U.S. Senator, the father of one of the kidnaped girls, pretty much as he played being mayor of New York City - like a B-picture leading man. At that, he is not the worst thing about this flaccid, fatuous film, though with such wealth to choose from, it is hard to say who or what deserves...
From the verbal standpoint, Newman writer, Watergate was a lengthly catalogue of the type of flaccid phrase so common in society today: "One of the things the Watergate hearings revealed was a poverty of expression, an inability to say anything in a striking way, an addiction to a language that was almost denatured, and in which what little humor did occur was usually unintentional...