Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is nothing slack about the apparent softness of his interiors and still lifes, like the great Dining Room Overlooking the Garden, 1930-31. The light shifts and shimmers, and some of the objects on the table are drowned in it. Here is a jug, there a cup, there a brioche--but what is that oval yellowish object on the right of the tabletop? Forms sink against the light, and at first you hardly even see the ailing Marthe in her housecoat at the left edge of the painting, timidly holding her cup. Yet, as so often happens with Bonnard...
...Pesci works his scuzzy Leo Getz character hard to take up the slack, but he's oldish news by now--and so are the film's action sequences, all frantic variations by director Richard Donner on gags we've seen before. New news Chris Rock works harder than anyone else trying to get laughs as a young detective helping the old pros pursue a gang that's smuggling illegal aliens into the country, but he's caught red-handed trying to steal the picture. Get some sneakers, kid. And try whispering...
Vail added a changeup to his repertoire and trained hard in the offseason, picking up the slack in the starting rotation left by the loss of Frank Hogan to graduation and Duffell and classmate James Kalyvas's constant battles with elbow troubles...
...father's "guitar pulls" in his living room, when a lot of musicians and songwriters previewed their new work. I was about 19 years old, with purplish hair and insouciance to spare, and the honored guests were George Jones and Tammy Wynette. I sat slack-jawed and transfixed as they sang (We're Not) the Jet Set. ("No, We're not the Jet Set/ We're the old Chevrolet set/ Our steak and martini/ Is draft beer with weenie"*). She sat on the plush blue antique sofa, hair poufed out to here, with nails, makeup and outfit perfectly coordinated...
...were welcomed into Walker Hall by the sound of slack key music strumming in the background. Tropical flowers adorned the walls, people in bright aloha shirts darted around excitedly, and the familiar smell of kalua pig wafted through the room. Kalua pig, the centerpiece of every luau, is fire-roasted on red-hot stones in an underground oven called an imu. I assume that the organizers couldn't pull off the red-hot stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with...