Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elizabethan costumes, topped off by sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes...
...temperate and colder climates are now including wall and ceiling insulation, but much of the country's existing housing stock lacks proper protection. That may make it difficult for newhouse buyers to get rid of their old ones. Although it picked up last month, multifamily construction has been slack as the market continues to absorb a glut of new building of that type completed during the early 1970s...
...periods during the bitter winter just ended. Power shortages might well close factories and schools and black out homes in the Pacific Northwest next winter, because a prolonged drought has curtailed hydroelectric power production and utilities have not built enough coal and nuclear power plants to take up the slack...
NCAA hoop has picked up the slack a bit, now that nobody has any idea of who the best team in the nation really is. San Francisco had its cover blown two weeks in a row when Notre Dame and Nevada-Las Vegas proved that the Dons' schedule is about as formidable as Beaver Country...
...team's performance this season has been the result of that coaching philosophy. Each game, a new player took over the role as team leader. If Caryn Curry was not scoring one night, then Wendy Carle picked up the slack. If Ellen Hart was not making the steals, then Katherine Fulton adjusted and sparked the defense...