Word: limpness
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...surrealist heyday, Salvador Dali made his name a byword with his meticulously rendered crutches, melon-shaped buttocks and limp watches dramatically set against elongated dream vistas. But when Dali moved his subconscious props into religious art after World War II, his work left the critics cold. For his recent Manhattan show Dali personally grabbed the limelight by mugging with his wax-bean mustache, but his work drew a bouquet of cabbages. His smooth-as-melted-ice-cream paint surfaces reminded one critic of "old miniatures painted on celluloid." Other critics deplored the "vacant trivialities" in the show...
...incomprehensible in Brooklyn, but they still weave powerful spells. It takes a dedicated collector to murmur, as one of the Brooklyn show's donors did last week: "These carvings are my friends." Brooklyn's Maternity Figure from the Congo can make a bronze by Henry Moore look limp-and comparatively friendly...
TIME'S April story concluded: "Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every...
...walk. Every day he walks to his mother's office, where she supervises the nurses' training school. He is able to kick a soccer ball almost as well as any normal boy. His ambition is to become a doctor. My wife still walks with a slight limp. As she and Ronnie go about the grounds of the hospital, people stand and watch in admiration...
...bloodied Marciano's broad nose. In the eighth, he opened a small cut over the champion's left eye. Then he made his mistake. Stepping away from a clumsy left hook, he dropped his own protecting left hand. Rocky crossed with a roundhouse right to the jaw. Limp and empty-eyed, Charles sagged to the canvas. He was up at the count of four. Rocky was all over him, pumping those stubby arms with awful, awkward power. Down for the third time. Charles took the count of ten. He was still groggy when he stumbled across the ring...