Word: flaccidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Make Mine Mink (Rank; Continental). Terry-Thomas is a minor British comedian with a mouth like a disappointed mail slot, gaunt but somehow flaccid cheeks, cavernous eye sockets containing soggy blue objects that look as if they had sat all night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and a gap between his two front teeth that has earned him a reputation in English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love...
...Taste of Honey (by Shelagh Delaney) was written, out of dissatisfaction with seeing flaccid plays, by a 19-year-old Lancashire girl. By the time she was 21 it had run for a year in London's West End, as it deserved to. For a playwright of 19, A Taste of Honey is a most talented piece of work...
...people are always denied the benefit of the doubt. When they get excited and start calling for the Marines and generally throwing their weight about, they are castigated for being hysterical children. Yet when they remain calm and unruffled, they are castigated for being lethargically senile, too tired and flaccid for world leadership ... I do not wish to suggest, of course, that all is well with...
...Catholic Church and a shifting coalition of minority parties determined to prevent the Communists, Italy's second largest party, from attaining power. In office for the past seven years, the Christian Democrats have turned complacent, done little to redress the squalid poverty of much of Italy, become a flaccid party of petty corruption. The factories of the north are booming, and Italy is gradually developing a thriving middle class. But the arid south and the poor in the city slums have little share in this prosperity, and no strong anti-Communist opposition party exists to represent the dissatisfied...
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject, from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the flaccid 20th-century...