Word: slack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Insignia items, for one, which are quite easily hawked to tourists with a psycho-erotic attraction to Harvard. Still, the Coop doesn't turn a profit. Don't you think J. August and the Harvard Shop might be willing to pick up the slack as replacement retailers for those products...
Despite a few good moments--usually having to do with the siblings' reactions to Mamma's seizures, which run a convincing range from sympathy to loathing to terror--most of "Rust" is slack and predictable. Farnsworth has managed to build a play that works, but only barely--hopefully he will continue to produce more sophisticated plays, and allow this first effrt to fall back into the gentle obscurity it deserves...
...Dependency. And what Goldin has learned since then about the inexplicable pleasures of life is evident in a wonderful recent shot of her mother laughing. But when her own life's work faces you in bulk, at least in the 275-picture bulk hauled up by the Whitney, the slack starts to show. Goldin is a diarist, with a diarist's instincts for the ways into her own saga but also the same weakness for the dull stretches...
...this because she is more organized, more disciplined, more thoughtful, and more faithful than he is, among other things. Leaving the world of fiction, John R. Starr, an Arkansas pundit, was no Clinton supporter until 1983, the year he met Hillary. After that, he cut Clinton some slack because "no husband of hers could be that bad." There could not be a more apposite instance for the phrase "Behind every good man lies a better woman...
...mismatch came out in the singing as well. While she had mastered some of the chanteuse's mannerisms -- especially a nasal tone in words like "door" and "more" -- she still tended to be too thin and loud in the high notes, and the pace of some songs was awkwardly slack. Which simply means that she doesn't have exactly the voice for this repertoire; who else comes as close...