Word: flailings
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...LEVELS, the production loses steam after intermission. To be sure, this is in part Wedekind's fault; Spring's Awakening starts to flail away in the end, as if the author is in a hurry to get to his striking climax. Still, this only calls for a greater focus on the director's part. Instead, Prum flails even more than Wedekind. Scenes take on the flavor of sketches from Saturday Night Live; the light, controlled parody that distinguished the first half lumbers now in its obviousness. Worse, it gets turned back on the play and the production itself, always...
Before that game Howard took blue acrylic paint and brushed on her team-mates' mouthguards various slogans such as flail Yale, nail Yale, etc. "We all smiled on the opening face-off, and the impact just blew them away," said Mary...
...their boats, the coxes are in total control. On and on they drone as their crews flail away at their oars. The cox just sits up front taking in the sun and getting mad at the world...
...object to ratifying the International Monetary Fund accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these skirmishes, the two men are, in the words of Historian Chariot, "condemned to get along." Chirac told Wierzynski, "I will not flail in all directions in an irresponsible manner. So long as there is no major change in the policies of France, so long as I am in the majority, I have no intention of provoking a crisis...
...crocodile attack, a ship ramming, several pratfalls and-this being colonial Africa and all-several glimpses of bare-breasted native women. Lee Marvin, playing a bibulous adventurer named Flynn, and Roger Moore, appearing as Sebastian Oldsmith, an entirely too credulous old Eton boy fallen on hard times, alternately flail away at and consort with each other in a variety of cockeyed attempts to earn a dishonest dollar...