Word: limpness
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That claim can still make some people wince. To anyone conditioned to want every figure bolted into an ironclad composition, Winogrand's images can look limp, slapdash -- shots taken at the indecisive moment. They seem to lack a prevailing mood, leaving the eye to make its way among faces with canceled expressions or bodies deposited around the frame in eccentric ways. Rather than place his main figures in the foreground of a tautly arranged setting, Winogrand was content to see them sliced by the edges of the frame, or surrounded by acres of unexceptional space, or perched in the middle...
...locked door. No response. Their leader inserted a passkey and pushed. On the inside, the fugitive braced a shoulder against the door and shoved back. But the lawmen burst in, reinjuring the suspect's broken finger. Reluctantly he allowed them to lead him into an elevator, then went limp. They lifted him up, carried him feet first through massive doors -- and onto the floor of the U.S. Senate...
Johanna Neilson: Definitely the heart and soul of the Crimson. She can be knocked down three times on a single shift, limp to the bench and come back on the next shift. Scored two critical special-teams goals (one power-play, one shorthanded) last weekend and set up another...
...sort of victory for Bush: just a few weeks ago, beating Dole by fewer than 10 points in New Hampshire would have been considered quite limp. But in the supercharged age of nonstop tracking polls, expectations change almost as fast as the fickle fancies of undecided voters. By the weekend before the voting, polls showed Dole pulling ahead. Surveys taken before the final debate and before the last ads were aired reinforced the conventional wisdom that Bush was collapsing. His last-minute recovery and victory thus became a surprising triumph...
Drabinsky has never shied away from a fight. As a child with polio, he had to fight for his life; he still walks with a limp. In Cineplex's early days, he barely averted bankruptcy when Canada's reigning circuits, Famous Players and Odeon, pressured distributors to withhold first-run films from the fledgling company. But in 1983 Drabinsky, a lawyer who had written a standard reference on Canadian motion-picture law, convinced the courts that Famous and Odeon were engaging in restraint of trade. A year later he bought the Odeon chain, but his battle with Famous still rages...