Word: limp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewis was not at first a particularly sympathetic figure. She describes herself as "a glamorous Beverly Hills writer," and on the day she walked into court she had that 90210 sheen. But when she stumbled out two days later, Lewis had the blanched face and limp carriage of a person who had been grievously violated...
...busboy, she as a waitress. Eva recalls the encounter ("He had a bad accent, even though he doesn't think so!") as a lightning bolt: "I walked into this room, and there were a bunch of guys. One shook my hand, and it was, you know, like shaking a limp fish. But then there was this really good-looking guy who shook my hand, and I was just like, wow!" She still smiles at the memory, rolls her blue eyes and swallows a giggle. In June 1958 they were married...
...means to stop him. A gifted orator, he roused passionate, even violent, crowds at his pro-democracy protests. After mounting an unexpectedly strong challenge in his first presidential race in 1971, he was nearly killed when, suspiciously, a truck smashed into his car, leaving him with a permanent limp. Two years later, government agents shanghaied him from a Tokyo hotel to a ship at sea, where they planned to drown him. In 1980 the military government sentenced him to death for dissidence...
...Perhaps it is the corruption of youth that fascinates. Marky Mark's raps were as limp as the tongues of old sneakers, addressing subjects like peace and resisting drugs and blah blah blah with all the force of an NBC "The More You Know" public service announcement. His Calvin Klein ads were racy, but in a courteous, folded-napkin sort of way, all rounded pecs and flat abs, clean living and bright smiles. In Boogie Nights, Wahlberg gets real and raunchy: his character masturbates for money, has on-camera sex, snorts coke, robs houses and delivers a monologue with...
Inside Howard is also an imp, one that can explode without warning, like the alien in John Hurt's belly. Howard's hand suddenly goes all frilly and limp; he refers to a crossroads as an "intersexual...homosection...intersection." Are these the symptoms of some rare disease--gay Tourette's--or merely the reaction of a gentle man under pressure? His life has been a mess ever since a former student of his, Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), won an Oscar for playing a homosexual. In his acceptance speech, Cameron thanked his inspiring English teacher back home...