Word: slouching
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...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...
Even by the old standards of Latin American despots, Panama's strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega is no slouch. He has been accused of drug running, money laundering, election fraud and helping to steer restricted American technology to the Cubans and Soviets, not to mention repressing his own people. Yet Noriega, the Commander of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto dictator since 1983, has been adept at exploiting his country's strategic position. Although he openly cuddles up to Havana, he has long enjoyed a cozy relationship with the CIA, and his country plays host to the headquarters...
...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...
...their duet together, Beatty's operatic voice contrasts nicely with Tornell's more comic style and lends the tune some real musical flair. But Beatty is no slouch when it comes to comedy, as she does a wonderful job with the scene where "mission doll" Sarah Brown discovers Bacardi...