Word: flaccidity
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...circa 1978, when 4-12 looked like a decent year to both squads. It looks that way again ? the Chiefs have lost both starting cornerbacks, their coach and probably what's left of their dignity after an awful preseason, while the Bears are pinning their hopes on the flaccid left arm of Cade McKnown. Still, Bears getting three points in front of the home folks against the Griefs is irresistible...
...least, Episode 1 does offer a few new mysteries, presenting new races, worlds and a ridiculous new rabbit-like character, Jar-Jar, but these originalities are few and flaccid compared to the rich detail of the first movies. More often, Lucas simply resorts to twisting the plot which is mandated by the originals. Anakin has to marry someone in order to be Luke's father, thus in _Episode1_ he develops a budding affection for a queen, but she's twice his age. That--and new spaceships--is Lucas' current creativity...
...with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...times at the White House last week, Sandy Berger is known for wielding one of the more puckish wits at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. After watching the Harrison Ford thriller Air Force One, in which the National Security Adviser is killed, then The Peacemaker, which portrays the aide as a flaccid functionary, Berger quipped at a National Security Council meeting: "Well, at least there's an improvement! In Peacemaker I was powerless, but I was still alive...