Word: limpness
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...hold on a second, Boston is not as theatrically limp as it might seem, for this week brings us a whole bunch of actual, guaranteed-not-to-tarnish Broadway plays. Except for one thing. They're all about ten years old, or, at any rate, we saw them in New York before we even knew what SAT's were...
...beer commercial, and the commercial was so boring (another "Schlitz Light" jobber -- only this time they decided to change the Coburn character a little, mellow him out; they took all of the "tough" out of him) that Bobby just nodded out in front of the tube, his hand falling limp, spilling beer all over the synthetic carpet...
...dismay of some of his friends, Beckett began to imitate Joyce's mannerisms. He dangled his cigarettes carelessly from limp-wristed hands. Although he was nearsighted, his eyes were not then seriously troublesome, but he held books and papers up close to his glasses in the same attitude of languid exhaustion that Joyce affected in order to cover his very real inability to see clearly...
...sympathy for your skiinjury," it began cruelly. "You deserve it for the soft life you've been handed, you bastard. I hope it mends in time for your next big-shot fete. If it doesn't, maybe you can make up a good story about how you got your limp, one that Zbiggy or Gore or Truman or Jackie will swallow like hot pate...
...five bodies burning inside. The rear windows were blasted out and the barrel of a machine-gun was poking out. A child aged seven or eight was lying on the asphalt, a bullet hole in its head. Three women in a nearby ditch screamed for help. I helped them limp to waiting ambulances. A young couple emerged from the ditch screaming, 'We had two children in the bus.' The woman was hysterical. 'Where are my children, my children?' she cried. The husband was steely calm. 'If my children are dead,' he said with eerie...