Word: flaccidity
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...asked a group of liberal economists to an all-day meeting in Manhattan. The Senator said that he was determined to shed his image as a one-issue candidate and take firm positions on matters other than the war. He was especially eager to bear down on the then-flaccid economy. In effect, McGovern asked the group to become his economic brain trust...
...flashbacks are often handled with surprising awkwardness. Kiyoaki is stupefyingly narcissistic, and unfortunately so is the author. He pauses so often to admire his hero and his school friends that at times the prose itself resembles a drowning pool. Some of this satiety may be chargeable to a wordy, flaccid translation. Occasionally, however, Mishima produces sensual writing of great delicacy. Looking at two Siamese princes, Kiyoaki reflects: "Such skin must surely seal within itself a cool darkness and constantly refreshes these young men, like a luxuriant shade tree...
...plot is ingenious and preposterously complicated. Detective Philip Marlowe is full of tough backchat ("Cracking wise," he would call it). In The Long Goodbye, the paranoia and self-pity that engulfed Chandler in his last long work, Playback, are already in evidence, and the prose and characterization are flaccid. Still, this is a rich enough sampling to send any true fan back to the Cs for the other five novels...
Buoyant Profits. There is good reason for optimism. The economy, though not booming, is forging steadily ahead. Unemployment, at 5.7%, is much too high, and retail sales remain flaccid; the personal-savings rate for January touched a phenomenal 9.2%, up .5% from the month before. On the other hand, home building continues robust, running at a record annual rate of 2,500,000 starts in January...
This not-so-hidden menace in Ol denburg's work is truly obsessive, and it supplies one of the reasons why his art cannot be seen clearly in the Pop art atmosphere of flaccid, easygoing ac ceptance of the commercial image...