Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pass the war eating, snoozing and making out with the local ladies. The comedy in MEDITERRANEO is as languorous as the climate, and its point -- that most of the world's troubles arise when people are up and doing -- is agreeable if facile. The only stirring aspect of this slack, predictable movie is the fact that it won this year's foreign-film Oscar. There is something wrong with a system that rewards a movie as negligible as this with anything more than indifference -- especially in a year when Raise the Red Lantern was a nominee and Europa, Europa...
...Apple parades the usual assortment of acts. There are horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...
...when you're ranked number one in the country, you can slack off for a while...
...Globe said it will run the ads in its daily editions until all have appeared. The freebies will be one way to take up the slack caused by a nationwide dearth of help-wanted ads. According to the Conference Board, the volume of such ads plunged in January to the lowest level since 1983. Brother, can you spare a line...
Harvard's offense, on the other hand, will be decimated as seniors Jen Minkus, Ginny Simonds, Lauren Messmore, Courtney Hurley and Laurie White and Whyte depart. Junior Kim Landry and Alissi will be left to pick up the slack...