Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automobile as the "Fifth Freedom," he was not referring to the electric car. Dowdy, slow, limited in range and sometimes adorned-in its first incarnation around the turn of the century-with crystal vases and plush cushions, Grandma's old electric had all the sex appeal of a limp handshake. Henry Ford's flivvers and gushers of cheap Texas oil eventually drove electric vehicles off the American road and onto the American golf course, where most of them...
...deeply lodged in the racial unconscious. Those included sexual symbols. There is scarcely a Miró painting that does not somewhere contain his icons for the female and male genitals, as isolated from sensual context as the biologist's symbols, and just as unvoluptuous. Male phalluses are always limp, and female vaginas sharp-edged and abstract, even when surrounded by flaring flames. "The sex organ has a poetic power, like a comet," Miró says. Those figures - sometimes gay, sometimes grotesque - that posture against fathomless space are what Miró's latter-day disciples have most tried...
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...Crimson did not take very long to set the pace in Saturday's contest. Displaying the confident shooting that has characterized the team's gutsy struggle toward the .500 mark, the cagers folded, spindled and mutilated a limp St. Anselm's defense...
...rest conduct cold, and he must use a heated boot. Nonetheless, he is now skiing as well as ever. Says Marolt: "Even I didn't think it was really, truly possible, but he's done it." Mahre fought back to peak form by the painful expedient of refusing to limp. "If you let yourself limp, it gets to be a habit. If you don't limp, then you won't favor your leg. So I just told myself that no matter how much it was killing me, I wouldn't give...