Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, fat, gap-toothed, messy, and, according to one contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt to his mother, wife, sister, mistress, gardener and the village constable in Ville-d'Avray. Now the world stands heavily in Balzac's debt...
Television last week tautened its slack season with some of its finest hours, a reprise of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and a pastoral homily by Lyndon Johnson...
Events of any serious cultural significance on network TV are limited, these days, to a smattering of expensively produced specials. Educational TV attempts ,o pick up the slack. Among its current oferings at various dates and times on all 104 of the National Educational Television affiliates: Paris 1900, six one-hour plays by French Playwright Georges Feydeau adapted by a British repertory group; U.S.A.: The Opposition Theater, six 30-minute modern American dramas sampling the satirical and anti-Establishment wares of such groups as the Second City and the Living Theater; and V.S.A. Dance, several 30-minute ballets choreographed...
...bright for Walker. It is doubtful that Vernon Law can duplicate his sensational comeback of last season, so pitchers like Steve Blass and ex-Yankee Pete Mikkelsen must take up the slack. Bob Bailey must switch back to third base after a year in the outfield. He and Law are definitely the key factors in any Buc flag chances...
...dialogue is archly mock-Edwardian; the pace, trampolin-bouncy. The sprung rhythms prove complementary, and the cast handle the outlandish fool ery like seasoned farceurs. The show does have its slack and silly moments, but never when Paul Ford is dead center, deadpan and dead earnest, the dourest living master of comic mayhem...