Word: looser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Ritter as a San Francisco cop, is essentially a Hill Street Blues combination of crime-show action, broad comedy and "sensitive" character drama, slickly done but a bit overripe for its half-hour length. The Slap Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as an oafish sportswriter, opts for a looser structure and more melancholy tone. Slap is a blustering loser who is constantly getting socked in the face, pushed around by his boss and dumped on by women; when his estranged son shows up for a visit, the reluctant dad has to poll co-workers for possible topics of conversation...
...especially impressive works, "The BirchGrove" (1885-89) and "Silence" (1898) reflect theinfluence of the later French impressionists aswell: the interplay of the light on the trees andin the water, the looser brushstrokes and thelighter pallette combine to reveal what thepainter Nesterov has described as "that which ishumble and innermost within every Russianlandscape--its soul, its charm...
...music played on clocks and radios that are yoked together. They run a mile or two to ward off heart disease, chomp high-fiber cereals to ward off cancer, and dress in the fashions of the times, which may seem starchy to you but in fact have never been looser. They proceed then to offices populated with machines designed to give them back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people with telephones in their cars, dealing with those they cannot reach because of traffic jams. Some others they pass make homes...
Less visible but more formidable was the National Rifle Association, the powerful 3 million-member lobby that had pushed for looser gun controls with a $1.6 million campaign. In the end, N.R.A. muscle spoke louder than the policemen's protests. By a vote of 286 to 136, the House markedly weakened federal regulation of interstate gun trafficking, rewriting restrictions that had been passed in 1968 following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The outcome, said Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, was "a genuine disgrace. It's a classic example of the power...
...This year we will be a little bit looser," he added. "We'll be ready...