Word: slouchingly
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...upstairs neighbor of Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the primal sitcom The Honeymooners, Carney proved that a second banana could be the top. His booming voice was complemented by a genius for body English. Carney's every move was an eccentric dance. He walked in a springy slouch, his thin frame forming a question mark, his gut preceding his chest by a beat or two. His hands were ever aflutter, shaking off invisible water (or sewage), conducting an imaginary silly symphony. While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon. Like the Looney Tunes character Pepe...
Though Ivy League opponents know him as an offensive threat, in high school, Mazza did double-duty as a defensive back. He was no slouch on defense, nabbing a conference record 14 interceptions his senior year. But his heart is in the role of wide receiver, and that’s how most colleges recruited...
...SLOUCH CHIC The shrugged-on silhouette came from Coco's first big idea of taking a lover's sweater, cutting it down the front and sewing ribbon on the edging...
Director Peyton Reed (Bring It On) too often uses a gong where chimes would do, and his split-screen double entendres would have got Rock and Doris arrested. But Pierce is a perfect Tony Randall mimic in the hero's-pal role, down to the defeated slouch and the baritone whining. The film's costumes and design have a giddily precise exaggeration to them. And stay for the movie's denouement: a two-minute speech that wraps up the plot like Christmas ribbons around a time bomb...
...Salient Editorial board is perfectly willing to transgress natural laws, but the problem is we can’t find anyone to transgress them with. Again, we recognize these sexual conventions are arbitrary social constructions, but there’s just no time to find that perfect someone to slouch towards Gomorrah with...