Word: languid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the waterfront on a sparkling day, languid groups linger over low-cal drinks, sun themselves by the fountains, read and daydream on shaded benches and fantasize about the grand boats tied up at their feet...
Sometimes the Bentsen campaign seems to be a languid odyssey in futile pursuit of network airtime. By design, the Dukakis headquarters has kept him from committing any news, though he has stepped up his attacks on Quayle. "If the Republicans were elected," said Bentsen last week, "I would pray for the good health of George Bush every night." Bentsen's advisers trust that he will show similar vigor in this week's debate...
...past year he's been off the road only for scattered five-day stretches, downtime is to be cherished. "I love to ride," he says, and he takes one of his three horses over his new spread, sometimes staying near the creek that runs around his cabin in a languid semicircle, like a lucky horseshoe. "Out in the country," he says, "now that feels like home. That is how I was raised, out away from everybody, and that is what I still like." Randy Travis knows his rightful place. And he stays hard by his roots...
Under Howard Deutch's languid direction, Candy performs the slow burn of a put-upon Mr. Middle America, and Aykroyd perfects his impression (first exhibited in the 1981 film Neighbors) of Richard Nixon as a used-car salesman. It would be nice if these acute comics had achieved the intimate hostility of cousins who rasp on each other's nerves. But Hughes cannot be bothered here with surprise or subtlety, so his antagonists have the fatigued familiarity of sitcom characters toward the end of a long run. Next time, Hughes might consider a longer gestation period for his script...
...quixotic move? "Oh, the same reasons people always give when they run," he explained in typically languid fashion. "The proper issues aren't being presented; the people deserve a better choice." McCarthy has a book of essays due in August (Required Reading for 1988), and a campaign might help sales...