Word: sluggish
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...Harvard man’s sluggish pulse still echoes through the corridors of our campus. With our blissfully scatterbrained new curriculum in hand, the time is ripe to stop his heart beating once...
Kunqu, China's oldest known operatic form, enjoyed its peak of popularity in the 18th century, when the best performers were adored by hundreds of thousands of fans. But by the 1940s there were virtually no dedicated Kunqu theaters left. With its archaic lyrics, sluggish melodies and tedious narratives, the 600-year-old genre - a precursor to the better known Peking opera - was all but dead and understandably so. The Peony Pavilion, one of the most famous Kunqu works, consists of 55 scenes, and a performance can last more than 20 hours. Witnesses to such a grandiose relic should worry...
...nuclear program. He has no more power than his predecessor, the failed reformer Mohammed Khatami, who came to be regarded in the West and in Iran as a well-dressed cipher. Indeed, Ahmadinejad has failed in the one area where he actually does have some authority: reforming the sluggish oligopoly that is the Iranian domestic economy. There have been riots over the rising price of gasoline. His political future is shaky. And yet this strange little man who brings to mind Peter Sellers more readily than Adolf Hitler - Sellers playing one of his brilliantly befogged simpletons - occasioned a classic, free...
...were sluggish,” said Crimson head coach John Kerr. “We were not as sharp as we usually...
...thousands of visitors are expected to converge on France as it hosts rugby's World Cup. Sarkozy must also figure out how to pass a viable budget for 2008 that takes into account nearly $15 billion in income tax cuts opponents say benefit the wealthy, and the limited revenues sluggish growth with produce. To compensate for those shortfalls, Sarkozy is considering introduction of a "social value added tax" on top of the nearly 20% VAT already in place. Opponents say that will not only shift the brunt of France's tax burden away from high income earners to consumers...