Word: stiff
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...with her gold earrings. She is ( deaf, and doctors are not sure how much she can see. She functions at the capacity of a four-month-old. Like a rag doll, she can neither sit nor stand by herself: her trunk is too weak and her legs are too stiff. A therapist massages and bends the little girl's legs, trying to make her relax. Next year her foster mother will put Felicia in a special school full time in hopes that the child can at least learn how to feed herself...
...crunch followed a long skid, and the damage looks heavy. Battered by recession and increasingly stiff competition from Japanese rivals, General Motors lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 1991, while Ford lost $884 million, and Chrysler dropped $341 million. Total: an astonishing $2.4 billion, the largest three-month deficit in automotive history. Worse, the Big Three have accumulated $4.5 billion in red ink since last fall, when the gulf crisis shattered consumer confidence, and the companies seem certain to remain in the red for the rest...
...Running a ballet troupe is a tricky business. In addition to day-to- day operations, fund raising and the ceaseless development of talent, a director must have artistic impact on the world of the arts, or the troupe's name will lose its luster. Martins' Beauty cuts like a stiff breeze through increasingly remote traditions. No major company has managed such a rigorous rethinking of a full-length work in more than a decade...
These are stiff measures, but they will do more than just lay down the law. If implemented, they will teach students to behave like adults, to accept the consequences of their actions--important lessons for anyone, especially future lawyers...
John Clafin's set was adequate, with few props that served many purposes without becoming distractingly dull. The juxtaposition of Confederate and American flags, for example, conveyed a timely and potent message of racism. But the blocking in this show was extremely stiff. In several scenes the actors appeared to be glued to the stage, and their movements were often jarring. Anna Banks and Cinque Hicks provided a notable exception to this rule with their lively choreography for the Fourth of July sequence...