Word: slouching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sits like this? No American male over six years old and, Lord knows, no baseball player. Players slouch. Players hunch over with headphones on. Players sit like emperors with arms folded. Yet here is Ichiro, on a chair in front of his locker: feet drawn up, heels pressed against his butt, knees together?a position physically impossible, not to mention unacceptably precious, for the muscle-bound types populating major league clubhouses these days. Twenty minutes pass. Ichiro doesn't move. His head is tilted up to watch a TV set hanging from the wall. He stares, grinning. He would look...
...early 1990s were not like today. They were good years to be sullen and dumpy. After a decade characterized by women in suits shaped like triangles and hairdos shaped like sea monsters, it was finally okay to slouch and cultivate split ends. A spirit of general dishevelment spread from grunge rock's coup on the Billboard charts into fashion and movies. This was the heyday of the Breeders...
Nikki O'Neill, a plant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is no slouch when it comes to computers. Nor does she shy away from home-improvement projects, having handled the electrical work for an addition to the house she shares with her husband and two children in Silver Spring, Md. But when O'Neill, 54, tried to set up a home network so that her family's four computers could share printers and Internet access, she met her match...
...Grand Tour of Europe, a lengthy buffet of the best art, architecture and?for the men?wenches that the Continent had to offer. Today's overmedicated, under-careered university graduates have come up with their own rite of passage: backpacking through Asia. It might be more of a slouch than a Grand Tour, but at least it's edgy...
...Moscow is no longer a superpower, and certainly has few strategic cards to play. But President Putin is no slouch at playing Russia's limited hand to maximum diplomatic advantage. And while Moscow's experts don't believe the comprehensive missile defense scheme envisaged by President Bush is technologically feasible to the point of neutralizing even the "rogue" threat, let alone Russia's own nuclear deterrent, the Russians? skillful management of European concerns over treaties and a new arms race suggests they'll look to make maximum political and diplomatic gains from the controversy...