Word: limpingly
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...eras with tongue planted in cheek (42nd Street, Thoroughly Modern Millie), or they have books that are too patently silly for any sentient adult to pay attention (Mamma Mia!). Even The Producers, for all its pleasures, gets much of its comedy from Friars Club jokes about big bazooms and limp-wristed homosexuals, gags that passed muster only because they came from a revered master, Mel Brooks...
...music" that could help the genre survive. "It's only in the ghetto now but soon it will be popular." Not that the members of Taraf, say, seem to be worried that their time is up. Back in Islington the performers soon had the crowd of well-heeled locals limp with appreciation. The performers never seemed to get tired. There is, after all, always another accordion to sell...
...anyone possibly recommend watching the video of Daniel Pearl?s murder? On it, the terrorists who abducted the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan force him to declare his Jewish heritage and condemn the U.S. government; they then saw the head off his limp body and brandish it while a list of demands scrolls up the screen. It is awful, evil, dehumanizing. But does that mean it?s not also a part of history? Last week a weekly newspaper declared that it was. The Boston Phoenix provided a link to the footage from its Web page and showed Pearl...
That, of course, is part of the magic and the grip of his work: its unrelenting vitality. His figures, men or women, may be mad or bad. They may be full of life, or they may just have been spitted on a French saber. But they are never limp, wooden or uninteresting. Goya's immense appetite for life always keeps rasping through their imagined breathing. That is why one can never get bored in front of them, and why every Spanish painter since has seen him, with a mixture of delight and despair, as the man against whom no comparison...
...Saddam's psyche for years. A few intimate details have long been observed. Saddam never sleeps in his grand palaces but moves each night to a secret house or tent. He smokes Cohiba cigars supplied by Fidel Castro. He dyes his graying hair black. He walks with a slight limp, allegedly from back trouble, but he looks remarkably fit when seen, usually sitting or standing, on TV. Invariably he now appears wearing immaculately tailored suits in place of the green army fatigues he once favored. Iraqis say he has not worn his uniform publicly since 1998, when, according to local...