Word: slacked
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...Which brings us to the big caveat: Just as housing has taken up much of the economic slack for the past two years, both as a comforting investment for fretting consumers and a driver of consumer spending itself, a big bump elsewhere in the economy in 2003 could be housing's downfall. If stocks roar back this spring, capital inflows could steal from the bond market, pushing up long-term interest rates. Or Alan Greenspan and the Fed could do the same to short-term rates, as a way to hit the brakes on a recovery that is heating...
...narration--nothing. It begins in medias res, as though you had just stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. If you didn't see last year's The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, the trilogy's wizardly director, isn't about to cut you any slack...
Aquaculture was supposed to pick up the slack. It's already the world's fastest-growing food industry, with production increasing more than 10% a year. Farmed fish and shellfish supply 30% of all the seafood consumed worldwide today, up from 10% two decades...
...John Donne, "dissected myself, and they are gone to read on me." This knowledge also gave writers a vocabulary that opened up new imaginative worlds. Donne describes the soul of a young girl, as it races through the stars and toward heaven, as "the pith, which, lest our bodies slack, / Strings fast the little bones of neck, and back; / So by the soul doth death string heaven and earth." Someone who hadn't seen a body dissected might have been able to draw the parallel, but probably not with the razor-sharp language that makes Donne one of the greats...
...zooms into the murderer?s soul. (?The Untold Story? manages this with the rape scene; ?Dr. Lamb? does it with Simon Yam?s obsessive sexual defiling of his latest corpse.) And the Cat III director?s game was to out-gross the competition, leaving the audience and his colleagues slack-jawed in flummoxed awe. That?s the only apt response to ?Red to Kill,? the masterpiece in the ITMFG collection - the killer vase among these grisly movie antiques. (The film is available in the U.S. on video...