Word: slouching
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...that change doesn't have to be bad. Just after we wrote this letter's opening paragraph, we did a quick Internet search. Turns out Canaletto had been dead for eight years when the cornerstone was laid for Somerset House. He had actually painted an earlier Somerset House, no slouch in the aesthetic department but not quite the graceful building that rose on its 16th century ruins. And the newer one itself has been altered substantially by subsequent architects and planners. See, you can improve on perfection...
...black terry cloth wristband with a green ganja leaf design that he says lets the ladies know, "I can get you high." With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his gender - he also has the chronic slouch and bob of a beat poet - but looks aren't everything. Confidence and a smooth tongue can take a man much farther than a pretty-boy face. Fai knows it and, apparently, works it. According to his friend Luca, "He has an intuition to know when a girl wants...
...Washington and Moscow pored over the world map like a chessboard; it was then folded by Boris Yeltsin, who had no appetite for the game. President Vladimir Putin, however, wants to play. And under the tutelage of such old pros as former foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, Putin's no slouch when it comes to geopolitics. That much was clear earlier this year when the Russian president outflanked Washington among its own NATO allies in the diplomatic battle over U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Since then, he's managed, quite improbably, to revive a role for Moscow...
...Liberals and moderate Democrats look at the American landscape, slouch into torpor, and say, "They won." "They" are the Republicans. They control the Senate and the House, as well as most of the state congresses and governorships. They have survived for eight years under a President who talks populist but thinks centrist, and is on the starboard side of his own party. After the lawyers get through picking over the Florida tally as if it were a suit against Big Tobacco, conservatives will have a purchase on the White House. They already own talk radio. In Fox News, they have...
...Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president represented "the old ways of tax and spend," and sketched a Gore world where a tax collector stooped under every stairway and the gargantuan federal government would awaken and slouch toward your hometown. "For him big government has never really been dead," said Bush. "It has simply been biding its time, waiting for its next chance.... If Gore gets elected, the era of big government being over is over. And so too, I fear, is our prosperity...