Word: slouching
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Little Man Tate isn't all French. It speaks with a distinctly American accent; it saunters where a French film might slouch. Foster has worked for some superfine American directors -- among them Martin Scorsese (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Taxi Driver), Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused), Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) -- and this movie indicates that she paid attention. A pool-hall montage, all slow-mo and Saturn-ringed balls and electric-blue vectors, plays like a fast tribute to Scorsese's The Color of Money...
...Greek kouroi -- have an immense dignity and distance. Watch how a mere lightening of tone on a woman's face in profile, in the studies for La Grande Jatte, records the head's twist toward the light; or how wittily the curve of a little girl's highlighted slouch hat reflects that of her back. Such style, one realizes, is in essence moral. Seurat, one of the wittiest and most logical artists who ever lived, was simply incapable of triviality...
Although it is impossible to assess the troop strength of this grass-roots movement, it is significant enough to spark a backlash. Recently Oprah Winfrey, no slouch of a trend barometer, featured "self-help addicts" on her TV show. Some reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment...
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...