Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other more tangible ingredient for violence is weapons. If the flow of weapons is seriously curtailed, the violence will ease. The fact that D.C. has one of the nation's strictest gun control laws demonstrates the futility of local legislation. It is increasingly clear that stiff nationwide gun control is the only way to reduce the number of weapons on the street...
...production at times seems amateurish. This is due in part to the unfortunate attempt to create some form of a British accent, which makes Green Fingers resemble a well-acted high-school performance. And although the actors interact genuinely with each other, their movements on stage are often stiff, focusing on one repeated body movement to emphasize what the character is supposed to represent...
...minutes on Saturday, reason blew away with the stiff wind: Radcliffe held mighty Connecticut scoreless and scored themselves in the second half to take a 5-0 lead...
Fischler is even willing to say that sometime customer Michael Ovitz, chairman of Creative Artists Agency and the most powerful person in show business, is a bit of a stiff. "I can kibitz with everyone except him. He can afford to be independent, I suppose." Judging by his candid razzing of the movie-business elite, Fischler can obviously afford to be independent as well...
From the moment he appeared silhouetted against the White House, in sharp- pressed khakis and trademark kaffiyeh, Arafat couldn't stop smiling. This was the arrival on the world stage he had always dreamed of. Rabin was plainly of a different mind, uncomfortable and stiff. His body language throughout the ceremony -- the tics, the cocking of his head, the eyes cast toward the sky, the ground, anywhere but Arafat -- gave away just how uneasy...