Word: limpness
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Kicking at the limp bodies, the bandits kept saying: "Which one is Charry?" Full of the lust of battle, the bandits shot five more men, raped several women and girls, mutilated their bodies with machetes. Their afternoon's toll: 29 dead...
...Director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco is only 26. True, he has had help from his family. His father, a well-known photographer, is in charge of his camera, and his wife is his leading lady. She plays with an easy and spontaneous grace, and she looks, in her moments of limp asthenic loveliness, like an undine sighing in the Seine...
...give the "object" its due. In Piano Player, things-the honky-tonk piano, the hero's brass bed, an auto careening through the night-are vibrantly and almost independently alive, and man has become the lifeless inanimate object, draped over this brilliantly animated photoscape with the limp surrealistic pointlessness of one of Dali's melting watches...
...Everybody knows these players, son. This is the All-Star game. See that old fellow with the funny crouch? That's Stan Musial. The one with the frown is Roger Marls; the right fielder with the limp is Mickey Mantle. And that fellon-whose cap keeps falling off-that's Willie Mays. See how easy it is?" "Daddy, who's on third?" "Here's 50? son, Go buy a program...
...comprising a cosmos of three parts: Limbo, Purgatory, and Paradise. Limbo is inhabited by "the educational vagrants, the intellectual pagans, the good but academically unsanctified." "Many of the institutions here are churchsponsored and have fewer than 500 students. Their presidents treat them as personal properties, and they have limp faculties substantially padded out with incompetent women. "Nowhere else... is mediocrity so tolerated and is the mixture of morals, abilities, discipline, professions, and practices more unhappy." Eble does not shirk from citing some of these institutions by name...