Word: flail
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...brother, Kanta Prasad, gushes that the relationships forged by families who traded with one another in the gray market gave "touch and feeling" to Calcutta's bourse that was "absolutely unique." Mention unofficial finance to Mahajan, the former exchange vice president, and he gets so excited that his arms flail like the rotors of a distressed helicopter. "Nobody ever failed to pay up," he coos. "It served Calcutta for 100 years. It was a beautiful system. It was something about which India should be proud...
...book, Wallerstein argues that children don't care if their parents are happy--they just want the stability of a two-parent household, without which they would later flail through adulthood and have a hard time forming good relationships. This conclusion, like her other gloomy generalizations ("Parenting erodes almost inevitably at the breakup and does not get restored for years, if ever"), is based on a small, nonrepresentative sample of families who were going through divorce in l971 in affluent Marin County, Calif. Wallerstein looks for evidence that divorce harms kids, and of course she finds it--now well into...
...swearing and smoking cigarettes in the dining room of the Nonantum Hotel in Kennebunkport when he was 12. He'd round up the younger brothers and say, "O.K., you little wieners, line up," and he'd shoot them in the back with his air gun, and they would all flail and pretend to collapse on the floor, and it hurt, but they'd all get up and do it again, because he was the oldest and the most fun and so outrageous. They'd go to church, and he wouldn't say, "Good morning, Mrs. Witherspoon"; he'd say, "Hiya...
...mayor helped her land a $150,000-a-year taxpayer-subsidized job with the New York convention and visitors bureau, a job for which she was deemed "simply unqualified" by the weekly Crain's New York Business. This was just the sort of cronyism for which Giuliani loves to flail other politicians. Now that he was being accused of it, he had no choice but to bring out the snarl: "Get outta here! Get lost...
...Pitt has had--and yet managed to do so little with them. Sure, give him a scenery-chewing, obnoxious kook role (Twelve Monkeys) and he might be impressive, but try giving him a role that isn't just based on the lines--something that requires interpretation--and watch him flail...