Word: limpness
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...LOVE MY WIFE is just about what you'd expect from the author of Getting Straight and the director of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium: a limp, adolescent, pseudo-hip study of the comic agonies of an unhappily married contemporary man. Elliott Gould, of course, is the star, and he shuffles through the cretinous proceedings with the guilty look of someone who has been through it all so many times before that he should know better. I Love My Wife is the kind of assembly-line candy bar movie that induces in an audience rage...
With four starters already on the bench with injuries, it was no doubt discouraging to see four more limp off the file
From the tower to Apollo 11. On the other hand, lightning hit Apollo 12 as it left the Earth; and Apollo 13 exploded, failed to reach the moon's surface, and had all it could do to limp back home...
...only mildly competitive. But suddenly the two big men were ricocheting angrily from wall to wall while the rest of us scrambled for cover. It was obvious that Bob was a stronger and more experienced wrestler. But suddenly, as Bernie was squeezing him in a scissors grip, Bob went limp and gave up. "What's the matter, strong man," Bernie taunted. "You're not so strong after all, are you?" We all tensed, waiting for Bob's reaction, but there was none...
...issues were less clear-cut in the case of Mrs. Santa Teriaca, 51, a Cleveland housewife. Bothered by the worsening of a chronic limp, she had an operation for the removal of a small tumor on her spinal cord, and ended up paralyzed from the chest down. Her doctors claimed that the result was unfortunate but unavoidable. Mrs. Teriaca replied that she had been unaware of the risks. "The doctors," she told the court, "only told me that it would be as simple an operation as a tonsillectomy." The defendants apparently agreed that they should have told her more about...