Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other officers blamed the defeat on political factions in France and on the slack ness of civil life. While they fought and died for the cause of antiCommunism, they felt they were being betrayed or ridiculed by Parisian intellectuals. They decided that all revolutions in Asia and Africa are essentially Communist, and that a hidden conspiracy lurks inside Western society which seeks to destroy it. Members of this conspiracy were by turns identified as liberals, Jews, left-wing Catholics, the newspapers, and (later) De Gaulle...
...well-disciplined face and body; she is another accessory to the dress she displays, as silent and secondary as the shoes and gloves. If the dress does not fit, the model is made to conform (hairspray cans are tucked in the backs of loose waistlines to take up the slack; tissue paper is stuffed into brassieres to fill out bust lines...
...that both assertions are false and that East and West have something to gain from reduction of tension; he might have given some proof. Some situations in international relations may fit Osgood's idyllic see-saw model, but most seem more like a tug-of-war, in which any slack released by one side is immediately snatched up by the other...
...Gulfport, Miss., specializes in high-pitched nasal prayer for whatever his listeners suggest, and he prides himself on his gift: "The angel appeared unto me in a dream and commissioned me to give myself to prayer.'' He also has a gift for extracting folding money from his slack-jawed listeners: "Friends, is it not right that I should ask you to help support our work? You don't owe us anything. You write me whether you've got any money or not to send. But if you have something that you can send...
...Visconti's scenes look honestly at the appalling depths of brother love: two of the brothers quarrel over a girl, and one of them rapes and eventually murders her, yet is forgiven. But the acting is pointlessly, if deliberately, melodramatic; the murderer needlessly apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera...