Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brooks, "sick of...poems that cough lightly," said she considers now to be "the time for...stiff or viscous poems." One can find "bigness in a little haiku," she said...
...Juliet sticks her shoe in Alex's mouth, prompting him to kiss her ankle, it becomes obvious that they are more than just housemates. The mechanics of their friendship seem believable, but it's harder to accept their lusty rapport. Eccleston and Fox lack chemistry; their sexual interactions are stiff and unnatural...
...could pay after all and even put up $10 million more, but financiers were not totally reassured. They noted that Grupo Sidek still has an additional $100 million or so of debt coming due soon, and are concerned that if it fails to pay, other big companies will also stiff their foreign creditors. Eduardo Cabrera, a Latin American investment strategist for Merrill Lynch in New York, says that Zedillo ``should have stepped in with a bridge loan or something'' to remove all fears of a default. The President did not, and the Mexican stock market dropped about 6% last Wednesday...
...anddemure Magda, gradually giving herself over firstto nostalgia, then longing and finally abandon.Her young lover Ruggero (Joel L. Derfner) iswinningly earnest in both voice and appearance.Saccente puts in another solid performance asMagda's "gentleman friend" Rambaldo. Themephistophelian poet Prunier (Michael J. Olbash)is affably effete, but perhaps a bit stiff as theadvocate of love's "dread disease...
...question that bassist Sharpe has strong fingers, but his rhythmically monotonous solos seem to be rather weak in melodic ideas. On the tune "May Fair," drummer Scott soloed a la John Bonham for almost ten minutes, beating the living daylights out of his set in a vain, stiff-armed attempt at rhythmic expression. Tyner himself rarely unleashed runs of the dramatic four-note patterns that have made his sound so instantly recognizable in recent years. The McCoy Tyner group was a big disappointment this time around...