Word: slouch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toad's muscles glowed with well-being. He sported a touraco feather in his slouch hat. He had walked for days out of Kitich, a remote, beautiful camp on the Nyeng River in Northern Kenya, and now was skirting the Mathews Range in sandy, thorny country. Vultures wheeled over a distant lion kill. Toad was walking through heaven...
...Rose's own hitting streak in 1978 -- the National League standard of 44 -- he was caught in a paternity suit, and his marriage was dissolving. Only between the white lines of the field was he serene. Last week, before a mob of reporters, he tried for that carefree athletic slouch when he said, "This is great. My players can experience the kind of atmosphere they'll be facing in October." But his tone was tinny...
...years, and it will probably prove true. But the future looks to hold something for more ominous than the death of rock 'n' roll: its preservation. Not preservation in youthful splendor, like Dorian Gray, but in arrested decay--never improving but merely slowed in its collapse to an infinitisimal slouch, like Joan Collins on collagen-fiber complex, showing remnants of past sexiness and vitality but long past the capacity for excercising them...
...confident that Robertson would be a competent president. His Yale degree proves he's no intellectual slouch, she says. And while the politicians have been making deals Washington, Robertson has been running one of the nation's largest cable networks. He is no hatchet man. And mom says he's friendly, with no Dolelike dark side...
...perfect lack of grace. And thus a perfect match of style and subject. If we believed these figures were capable of rising above themselves and their drab surroundings, we would probably be appalled by their rutting ways. As it is, we see that the consummation toward which they rudely slouch, a menage a trois, represents undreamed-of fulfillment. Been down so long it looks like up to them...