Word: languidness
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...omission of India from "the supposedly languid Orient" was perhaps significant. As believers in the karmic theory of life, we can have but an academic interest in punctuality, for we have aeons of time before us. So if a thing cannot be done today or tomorrow, it can be done in the next life. Hence our belief that if you are there before it is over, you are on time. For a change, I would commend to the Americans the healthy art of keeping up with yesterday...
...beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness. There are extended pauses and dialogue exchanges full of deliberate paradox. Few film makers have dealt so well or so subtly with the American landscape. Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches-the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer-have their own intricate worth...
...ever accept a Spanish dinner hour - gazpacho at 11-or that the Spanish would even look at a Yorkshire pudding at the ungodly hour of 7:30. There are signs, however, that the concept of time is moving, albeit slowly, toward something like a global standard. In the supposedly languid Orient, industrial Japan adheres to a Germanic punctuality, while mainland China moves at a much brisker pace than it did before the Communist revolution. In Latin countries, even the siesta may one day yield to technological advance and a yearning for managerial efficiency. IBM, alas, has yet to invent...
...Percy had emerged as the first major Southern voice in 30 years entirely free of the Faulknerian inflection. That in itself was good news. Yet the particular glories of the book were a tone of voice that combined modern dryness and irony with an almost wanton tenderness, and a languid young hero who drifted from years of daydreaming about love to a gradual awareness of the real thing. Percy's second novel, The Last Gentleman (1966), was also about a vague young man, this one afflicted with occasional amnesia...
...York City Ballet. A trifle raw and stiff, Mitchell's young dancers nevertheless brought to the stage a springlike vitality and joy very much their own. Their version of Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, a staple of the City Ballet Repertory, did not have the studied, languid ease customarily provided by Balanchine's company, but it did project an affecting awkwardness and feeling entirely appropriate to a story about young dancers. Especially entrancing as the girl who stirs a narcissistic ballet student (Clover Mathis) from his daydreams was Lydia Abarca, 19, a native New Yorker...