Word: flaccidities
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...world has fallen into soft sleep, wrapped in that vague warmth of loved ones, or familiar loneliness, or expensive compromise; this mouth, the whore's mouth sucks again on the lipstick reddened cigarette, and begins to harden. The lips unspeaking cry 'fuck you too'. To the ever demanding flaccid phallus, and the rain of sterility...
...from being the subject of this flaccid thriller, the children are gimmicks, vehicles for a couple of nasty turns that the story occasionally musters the energy to take. The film's focus - gauzy at best - is on the parents, a mismatched pair of young marrieds living testily together in Paris...
...Truffaut's 400 Blows after all, that launched the New Wave back in 1959 and Truffaut's name on the credits that got Godard's Breathless released soon afterwards. Now thirteen years and nine features later, he has tripped into the pitfalls of artistic self-satisfaction--into the flaccid, the superficial and the frivolous...
...Long Island: high-keyed pinks and yellows and acid greens, a flicker of noon light, blue heat-haze on the potato fields, a jumble of sun-flushed legs on the sand. With a handful of minor exceptions, De Kooning's paint work manages to avoid the rather flaccid, glutinous and mushy quality it assumed in the middle '60s; his gestures occupy a curious middle ground between bravura swipe and pastelly softness, and the pigment oozes suggestively, a matrix of wavering depths. The sum effect is of sensual chaos, but modified with knowing flicks and placements: sprawl as form...
...remain when its platitudes change? The prognosis is not good. Words, like all currency, need to be reinforced with values. Take away the Federal Reserve and its dollar bill is waste paper. Take away meaning and a word is only noise. Changing chairman to chairperson is mock doctrine and flaccid democracy, altering neither the audience nor, in fact, the office holder. Despite its suffix, chairman is no more sexist than the French designation of "boat" as masculine, or the English custom of referring to a ship with feminine pronouns. Chairman is a role, not a pejorative. Congressman is an office...