Word: slackly
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...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...
During at least part of his stay at Harvard. Hampton stayed in the room of a Winthrop House student with whom he had apparently attached high school briefly in Buffalo, N.Y. According to one of the student's roommates, Charles W. Slack '83, Hampton told them he was in town for an admissions interview...
...days later he told them he would be staying later than he had planned because he had missed his plane to Europe, where he purportedly planned to meet his mother to go shopping in Rome and skiing in Switzerland. Slack said...
...Robert Santiago, the sophomore who started at the fullback spot the first four games, Santiago who pulled a hamstring at Cornell had never run a play from the fullback position until September. He and Bill Saleeby moved to fullback from other running back positions to pick up the slack left by injuries...