Word: stiltedness
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But not all gays are smiling about their self-imposed curbs on sex. "It's like having a third party hi the room, warning you not to do this or that," says one Boston man. "It makes the sex stilted and clinical." Others see some benefits. Gays who could never...
The day after the blast news organizations in West Germany received a 2½ page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine...
Getting over that will be Foer’s greatest obstacle when he sits down to write his third book. “Extremely Loud,†for all its richness and readability, exposes his apparent fear of writing about himself, and suggests a fatal flaw that will hold...
The main problem with the play is that it has a hard time deciding what it wants to be and sustaining interest. Though punctuated by arresting acting and interesting (if unexplained and totally unnecessary) dance numbers, the language of the play is extremely stilted (it’s translated from...
Goss, meanwhile, had been quietly planning his own housecleaning for a while. He had a mandate from Bush to make the CIA more aggressive and less risk averse in general, but he had special plans for the agency's storied clandestine services branch, the supersecret Directorate of Operations (D.O.), which...