Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomb blew apart Marine headquarters in Beirut on Oct. 23, killing 241 men. So concluded a highly critical report last week by the Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. The hawkish subcommittee, in a document approved by a vote of 9 to 3, charged the Marines with slack security and inadequate intelligence gathering, and accused the entire military chain of command of "very serious errors in judgment...
...paid staffers, Mondale's machine is capitalizing on his regional popularity (he was born just seven miles across the state line in Ceylon, Minn.). By contrast, says an Iowa party leader, "the Glenn campaign has been a disaster. If his organization doesn't pick up the slack, he's going to be sucking eggs out here." Mondale's organization in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary on Feb. 28, is the best seen there since John F. Kennedy's in 1960, while Glenn's campaign is not even second best. (Gary Hart...
...parade into stores. No longer held back by recession worries, consumers were buying presents that ranged from stocking stuffers to such big-ticket items as television sets and refrigerators. This season's merry merchants expect holiday revenues to climb by a healthy 10%, after four years of slack sales. Shopkeepers feel confident because customers have got the spending itch so early this year. When Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus opened its first Chicago outlet on Nov. 5, some 40,000 shoppers crowded into the aisles in one day. Says General Manager Lawrence Gore: "It's phenomenal...
...then there are no bad performances, no slack scenes, no inattention of any kind in Terms of Endearment. The impulse in praising a film for which there are almost no analogies is to define it by what it is not, but that is really not good enough. It deserves some blunt declaration of respect and unguarded affection. Therefore, these three: no film since Preston Sturges was a pup has so shrewdly appreciated the way the eccentric plays hide-and-seek with the respectable in the ordinary American landscape; no comedy since Annie Hall or Manhattan has so intelligently observed...
Bartlett is a deft maker of marks; she understands the syntax of representation so well that hardly an inch of surface goes slack. The way she renders the dusty black recesses of a cypress, or the paddle-like leaves of a foreground plant, or the lunar speckling of artificially lit gravel-and does it in terms of relentlessly agile movements of a broad brush-is a lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from...