Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken it into her head to seduce, will be around to catch a tantalizing glimpse of this or that secondary sexual characteristic. Since Zadora is the principal backer's wife, and this is nothing if not a vanity production, poor Keach is required at these moments to go slack-jawed with awe and wonder. As her looks may most charitably be described as an acquired taste, his persuasiveness in these scenes cannot be praised too highly. This is acting! But one cannot help thinking that if Zadora did less wriggling, slinking and twitching, propriety-not to mention the audience...
Harvard will go unrepresented in the hurdles as freshman standout Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson will devote herself to an attempt at a one-two finish with teammate Karen Cray in the pentathlon Junior Lenny Yajlma will have to take up Patterson's slack in the long jump. In the Big Time meet, Patterson took third in the event with a 5.26 meter effort...
...great once--a Gandhi or a King, say. They transformed people; they filled the oppressed with dignity, and the oppressor with shame, and they, sometimes, won their battles. But great men often carry their magic with them to the grave; what other way to explain the silence, the slack, when they are gone...
...just skated well," Bill Cleary said afterward. "But we didn't skate in the second and that's when Wade played great." In fact, although Lau certainly took the lead, coming up with five or six brilliant saves, the whole Harvard defense took over and made up for the slack-off in the skating department...
...first, Louise looks like a prettier, more cunning version of Kane's Susan Alexander. She has left her husband and come East to make her own way as a writer, but to the socialists and socialites of New York City, she is just Jack's dancing partner. Slack-mouthed and high-strung, isolated by her feelings of resentment and inferiority toward the Village intellectuals who fill the air with the helium of their ideas and egos, Louise becomes (as she tells Jack) "a boring, clinging, miserable little wife. Who'd ever want to come home...