Word: limpness
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...Bruins, expected to field one of their strongest teams ever this year, have struggled through numerous shoulder separations, cracked ribs, broken hands, and sprained knees, and limp into the Harvard game with a 3-7 ECAC log and a 5-9 record overall...
...success. The Lord Admiral is meant to be played as an old man, clearly unfit for marriage with Josephine, and to accentuate the absurdity of a landlubber in such a post he is usually played as a distinctly contrasting character to the manly crew of the Pinafore. Jeffrey Davies limp-wrists his way to great applause, mincing about the stage in white tights and giggling with the mannerisms of the stereotyped homosexual. The tumultuous enthusiasm which his acting draws from the crowd break his sincerity. He abandons his role to laugh with the audience at the character he has created...
...chat, share shampoos and in almost continuous motion, gather up their bottles and towels and now-limp suits. Under the hair dryer the conversation stops as the canned wind throws their hair to their eyes and roars past their ears. They grin at each other and at the matron, who is sweeping puddles of water at the drain...
...bumper bars, Los Angeles parking lots, horse postcards, the whole post-Pop iconography of deadpan images-is merely an absent-minded rumination on fact, painting reduced to bland, mechanical transliteration. The method precludes light and atmosphere, and silences all dialogue between brush-work and image. New Realism is the limp, ineloquent salon...
...successful on the pro tour for a while, but finally quit when he realized that he was not going to beat Jack Kramer consistently. He tried tennis promotion, beginning with Kramer and Pancho Gonzales and later with Gussie Moran. When Gussie's tour went limp, he secretly slit her famous frilled panties with a razor blade and told her about it when she was on the court. "When you stand in front of the press seats, bend over and that'll start some action." Riggs was furious when Gussie refused...