Word: sluggish
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...European economy may be a bit sluggish, but just how productive, really, is the U.S. approach? "Half of all Americans report some kind of stress, and 63% say they'd rather have more time off than more money," says Robinson. "We have no identity outside of work, and there's this new glorification of the tech guy who works 18 hours a day. The issue is: How does a corporation reward the people responsible for this economic boom? It's all going to the CEOs through stock options and executive-vacation packages...
Harvard, despite ultimately dominating Dartmouth in all statistical categories, got off to a sluggish start...
Unlike Harvard's sluggish start, the Catamounts were able to score in each of the first three innings...
...museum," he says, "you'll see pictures, murals, statues, skeletons, all of which are combinations of speculation and fact." Sometimes there was little fact to go on: What did dinosaurs sound like, for example? Haines chose "appropriate sounds for their size, weight and look." T. rexes roar; big, sluggish Placerias rumble. "If I gave them little chirruping noises, people would say, 'That's not very realistic.'" (We should know. We've seen Godzilla fight Rodan...
...standard Hollywood film, Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) would be the villain: he sports a goatee, smokes and--gasp!--reads books. Yet in the Polanski netherworld, Corso is the hero, in search of the devil's autobiography. Before it goes both sluggish and batty, the movie offers some of the grace notes of classic thrillers. It's handsome and elaborate, with nicely quirky turns by Depp, Frank Langella and Emmanuelle Seigner (Mrs. P). Polanski, the perpetual exile, has made his most accessible film since fleeing the U.S. soon after Chinatown...