Word: languidness
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...Times, this book suffers from many things, but most of all it suffers from the first person. But that first person telling also makes me think there is more to Panama than one might first notice: 92 in the Shade was a story of heat, moving at a seemingly languid pace, while Panama, underneath the cool cocaine fog, moves everywhere at once. In fact it moves no where, except back towards memory...
Three years ago, Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas emerged from their jungle hideouts and quietly but firmly seized power in the languid nation once known as "the land of a million elephants." Since then, the People's Democratic Republic of Laos has been off limits to most Western journalists. Among the handful of U.S. reporters who have been allowed to visit the country is TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Richard Bernstein. His report...
...most beautiful byōbu is the 17th century Entertainments at a House of Pleasure-an inventory of the resources of a refined, high-class brothel, populated by dozens of crisply drawn, languid silhouettes of women and clients in - and out of- their party kimonos. On the right, above the moon-viewing platform, formal pleasures: the brewing of tea, a game of cards, and a manifestly alcoholic banquet...
...other cities is generally less formal, though the impact of student thinking has been striking. In the Los Angeles school system, teachers begin focusing on energy at the kindergarten level, urging kids to turn off lights and not to linger in front of an open refrigerator for long, languid looks. Chicago schools have for years been teaching environmental science, with emphasis on energy conservation. Mike Palatnik, a teacher at Sullivan High School, made an intriguing discovery: "Kids want cars and material things, particularly boys. They are often hard to reach. Girls, on the other hand, seem to have more guilt...
...Matt Landers delivers a rousing soliloquy about how he quit a bank job because it was unreal and stopped being a cop when he began to hate people. As a fireman, he salvaged dignity and purpose in saving lives. Playing a call girl, Patti Lu-Pone displays a languid, undeluded cynicism that stingingly implies that the U.S. may be a nation of hustlers...