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...fact of the matter is that the President is playing a down limp game with words. He appeals to one's "understanding," to distract the listener from what's going on; the attempt may or may not be conscious, but the result is the same...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Presidential Doublespeak | 1/13/1984 | See Source »

...voice and the drop-dead campiness. It also invites a few questions, which Boy George, 22, can handle expertly. "I'm not gay," he says. "I'm as gay as I am heterosexual. O.K., I've experimented with both sexes, but I'm not a limp-wristed floozy and I'm not a transvestite. Transvestites show tits, man. I'm 6 ft., I'm a man, and I have no delusions." As for his appearance, Boy also says that he has "experimented" a good deal but "I'm just convinced that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Picking the Pockets of Pop | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...first man off the plane walked with a severe limp; the second hobbled down the stairs on crutches; the third had to be helped out the door. One by one, 43 more walking wounded emerged, looking grimy and bedraggled; some were shirtless but most wore torn blue jeans or other work clothes that they had pulled on hastily when the fighting began eight days earlier. The last eleven of the 57 Cubans injured in the U.S. invasion of Grenada and sent home to Havana last week had to be carried off the plane on stretchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba on the Defensive | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Babe (Cyd Quilling) the youngest, is guilty of shooting her husband because she didn't like his looks. Lenny (Caryn West), the eldest, feels incapable of consummating a relationship with a man because one of her ovaries is missing. Doc Porter (Tom Stechschulte), the debonair neighbor, suffers from a limp as a result of his roof caving in. The bizarre nature of the situation--bordering on the absurd--would make any audience uncertain whether laughter or tears are appropriate...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Misdemeanors | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...early risers are frequently disappointed. At a typical scramble, housewives confront a butcher who tells them that the meat locker is empty and he has "no idea" when more supplies will arrive. Milk and fish are scarce, fresh eggs are the rarest of treats, and produce counters display only limp, miserable specimens of vegetables and fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Nothing Will Stop This Revolution | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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