Word: stiffs
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...show goes well, though the crowd is a bit stiff. She lauds Columbus for being in the forefront of her favorite cause, the antinuclear movement. She's referring to the work of her friend, '60s activist Harvey Wasserman, a local, but the audience doesn't seem to get it. "I guess you can like my music without liking my politics," she says sheepishly after the show...
...film has one moment of pure magic, at the end, when Sam exits the church where her doped-up sister has just wed some “bohunk” stiff. She ran back inside to fetch a forgotton item, like any dutiful daughter would do, and everyone has disappeared. She stands on the steps alone for a moment, forgotten yet again. But a car passes by and into view comes swaggering, confident Jake Ryan who is there...
...Times fears that athletes damage and sacrifice the “identity and special mission of the liberal arts education.” Whatever that “special mission” may be, perhaps the editorial staff is a bit too stiff and dated to remember and appreciate the significance of collegiate life outside of the classroom. The experience of competing with an athletic team or playing in an orchestra or writing for a newspaper does not hamper our liberal arts education, but rather enhances and intensifies...
First, the institutional church has to acknowledge the magnitude of the damage. The Pope's cryptic paragraphs at the end of his Holy Thursday letter to priests hardly constituted a ringing mea culpa. At a stiff press conference afterward, Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, a contender for the next pontificate, short-circuited the avalanche of questions with a sample of Vatican stonewalling, sternly defending current policy. Citing the "serious and severe" internal rules the church has applied to pedophile priests, the Cardinal looked up from his text and asked what other institutions had such guidelines. "I would like to know...
From habits to habeas: erstwhile flying nun Sally Field returns to TV as a rookie Justice on a divided Supreme Court. The pilot is earnest and jargon laden, like producer John Wells' ER and The West Wing--and as stiff and colorless as a freshly starched robe. A big problem is Field's Kate Nolan, a dull, middle-of-the-road pillar of common sense whose tough streak Field undercuts with her doe-eyed, first-day-of-school demeanor. There are hints of intrigue, but the lifeless characters and boilerplate dialogue need judicial review...