Word: slouching
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Witteman oversees our peripatetic foreign correspondents from New York City, staying in daily contact by phone and computerized messages. No slouch at travel himself, Witteman has logged 30,000 miles since assuming his position last August, even finding time to run our coverage and report on the Winter Olympics in Albertville. "The resilience of my colleagues abroad is a trait I admire," says the former Detroit and San Francisco bureau chief. "In the U.S. you rarely have to worry about phones not working or planes being grounded because of chronic fuel shortages. For many foreign correspondents, that's merely part...
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Hinton is no slouch either. His 12 points and six rebounds per game round out a potent two man inside game. The combined efforts of starting forwards Ron Mitchell and Mike Minor and inspired play from Eric Carter and Anikar Chhabra off the bench, will be essential if Harvard is to hold down the tandem of Curley and Hinton...
Little Man Tate isn't all French. It speaks with a distinctly American accent; it saunters where a French film might slouch. Foster has worked for some superfine American directors -- among them Martin Scorsese (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Taxi Driver), Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused), Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) -- and this movie indicates that she paid attention. A pool-hall montage, all slow-mo and Saturn-ringed balls and electric-blue vectors, plays like a fast tribute to Scorsese's The Color of Money...
...Greek kouroi -- have an immense dignity and distance. Watch how a mere lightening of tone on a woman's face in profile, in the studies for La Grande Jatte, records the head's twist toward the light; or how wittily the curve of a little girl's highlighted slouch hat reflects that of her back. Such style, one realizes, is in essence moral. Seurat, one of the wittiest and most logical artists who ever lived, was simply incapable of triviality...