Word: retardent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislation has become more complex (e.g., energy and tax reform), it has become harder to study, formulate and finally pass. In this time of total communication almost any interest group can gain national attention-and most of them do, bringing a welter of pressures that retard the legislative process beyond anything we have seen in previous years...
Because 20% of the American population will be over 65 by the year 2000, Comfort sees oldsters developing into a formidable pressure group demanding more sympathetic treatment from society. The group's eventual goal: the commitment of Government research money to retard the effects of aging. Scientists have already found ways to slow the rate of aging in rats and other mammals. Comfort believes the same can be done for humans, so that a person of 70 or 75 would have a body like that of a 60-year-old today. Says Comfort: "Aging is a biological process involving...
...Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort...
...characteristic swivels and slides may look improvised, but Tharp's dances are planned down to the final blink. At rehearsals she snapped out commands: "Soft elbows, make sure you lift your skirts, ladies, watch your eleves," or "That retard should last forever, Marianna-you have a full second." In Tharp time, a second is an eternity. Her dancers are given a lot to do in the space of a beat. In one seemingly continuous motion, swaying hips slink into wiggles that burst into furious pirouettes, then stop on a dime and reverse directions. It is as if Tharp worked...
...other dream: quite simply, they believe in themselves. Twice each day Rocky stops at the neighborhood pet shop to crack a joke, trying to get the attentions of Adrian, an unmarried, unsought "loser" who stands without a word, feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges from behind her harlequin glasses as an appealing, attractive woman. "I always knew you was beautiful," Rocky whispers. With a sharp jab from the left, Rockybecomes a love story...