Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful of dancers jig in a mechanistic imitation of gaiety...
...inside-the-park four-bagger off Yankee Stadium's centerfield wall. Teammate Roger Maris, whose 28 home runs have turned his right ear into a more tempting target than the strike zone, ran into a dry spell, but San Francisco's Willie Mays took up the slack, collected three homers in one game. Even the seventh-place Chicago Cubs got into the act, hitting 17 in six games. Batters poled 112 home runs in six days, boosted big league totals...
...penetration from 5.9% to 7.9%. In so doing, it cut into sales of the standard-sized Ford, which slipped from 15% to 13%-Mercury also slid, from 2.5% to 2.1%, partly because it looks too much like the Ford. But its little brother Comet more than made up the slack by spurting from 1% to 3% of the market...
...Southeast with extensions to the Midwest, neatly complement United's transcontinental and West Coast runs. Because of the nature of its runs, United has traditionally suffered a dip in revenue and equipment use during the winter months; hereafter it will be able to take up that slack by toting some of the Florida-bound Midwesterners whom Capital ferried by droves in the winter...
...balcony, a lion roared. Power saws wailed, chains rattled, sirens shrieked, horns blared. A door squeaked shut on unseen hinges. Onstage, the members of the orchestra sat in slack-jawed silence. A woman's sepulchral voice boomed through the house. "Oh, God!" it moaned...