Word: languid
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...Eton College, the exclusive boys' school 35 km west of London. For centuries Eton - founded in 1440 - has been synonymous with privilege, the place where Britain's élite is given its polish and an air of entitlement. But this class doesn't feel like a hothouse for languid aristocrats. The boys are not declaiming Latin[an error occurred while processing this directive] but staring into computer screens, trying to master the database program Microsoft Access. Though a student once told Maxwell that typing was something he could leave to his daddy's secretary, the school insists that all first...
...What was the big deal? Languid displays of male and female genitals. As one of Smith?s avatars, John Waters, says: "Seeing a limp penis - in an arty way, in a way that was intellectual - was revolutionary. The police came because of it! Imagine, calling the cops because you saw a dick in a movie." The furor made Smith notorious but not famous. Within a few years of the Flaming Creatures fracas, new and more lurid displays of artistic obscenity were on display without police interruption. Smith kept at his mission for another quarter century, but audiences didn?t always...
...would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation in 1940, the historian Marc Bloch wrote: "Let us have the courage to admit what has just been vanquished in ourselves: it is our cherished small-town ways. The languid passage of the days, the slowness of the buses, the sleepy authorities, the shortsighted political bickering, the unambitious artisans, our taste for déjà vu and distrust of anything unexpected which could disturb our cozy habits. All that succumbed to the dynamic energy of Germany and its buzzing...
...senior vice president and Iraq project director. "It's a stepping-stone for moving into the rest of Iraq when the time is right." Last November a television campaign funded by the Kurdistan Development Corp. was launched on U.S. networks with the slogan "The other Iraq" and languid rural scenes that contrasted sharply with the war-ravaged Iraq on the news. Still, that message has not translated for some. "People in the States think I'm living in the desert, one step ahead of someone who wants to put me in an orange jumpsuit," says Harry Schute, a consultant...
...anything from those defeats and to fail to improve would have been deadly. Last season, the Crimson rebounded for the third-largest turnaround in the modern era of its history, winning eight more contests than it had during the dismal 2003-2004 campaign. The energy was back in a languid program. With both All-Ivy big men returning and the existence of clear heirs to the positions vacated by the departing seniors, Harvard would have another “best chance.” Another Cusworth injury tripped the Crimson up a bit after a 5-0 start, but Harvard...