Word: limpness
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...clambake--complete with damp rocks, a recalcitrant fire and lobsters that trudge purposefully out from under the tarp--Sheila Lukins' U.S.A. Cookbook (Workman; $19.95) is the way to go. Better to read about her fresh peas than harvest your own bullets, and to serve her herbed bass than your limp concoction that drives the guests out after the lobsters...
Certain political journalists may go mad if he is not deposed in the next couple of years. In the past few weeks alone, in a sort of limp-up to the Inauguration, observers such as Jacob Weisberg, Garry Wills and Maureen Dowd have scowled at his scandals, his personal treacheries and alleged philandering. What Clinton does to Joe Klein and Bill Safire shouldn't happen to a dog. None of these first-class intelligences are normally subject to fits of rage or blue funks, but when it comes to the man from Hope, whoa Nellie...
...Byrne's CD? Most of the songs on the CD, produced by Nile Rodgers, sound like limp imitations of Alanis Morissette. An advertorial track, It's a Woman Thing, doesn't help either. Byrne is a nonsmoker, but recording for a cigarette company doesn't bother her. "The exposure is tremendous," she says. Unfortunately for many young women, that exposure could be dangerous to their health...
...soapbox, I have long provided weekly verse so focused on current affairs that I've rhymed Dole with "liberal mole" and "preppie troll" (during the Forbes challenge, of course) and, in reference to his delivery of the Republican reply to the President's State of the Union message, "as limp as sauteed escarole...
...honest. twenty-four percent of eligible voters actually pulled the lever in favor of Bill Clinton. America hasn't seen such limp support since Madonna's Wonderbra was stolen. PAT HESTER Olathe, Kansas Via E-mail...