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This "lumbering and clumsy" alliance, incapable of "managing such brush fires as Kosovo," could "lose the Kosovo war in a month against the ruin of a rump state," warned columnist Charles Krauthammer.
When they both have the tweeds down, the smartie will front up, work the mug over a little for lumbering his missus, and then shoot through with the bint and the mug's willie.
The drama is spelled out in that lumbering bible, Das Kapital , where in the deepening crises of capitalism, and the sharpening knives of the class struggle, the end of days arrives, as Marx put it in the penultimate chapter of Volume I, when the capitalist "integument" bursts asunder, and the new society, nurtured in the womb of the old, steps forth as social labor, cooperative labor, communal harmony (the transit workers and Giuliani) in a mutual embrace.
It growls and snaps at the air, and though it does manage to stomp one victim (who, in a nice touch, sticks to the bottom of its foot like a piece of gum), in general it moves with such a lumbering gait that we might as well be back in the '60s watching Valley of the Gwangi . Where is the lethal swiftness of the predator?
Just to give one instance, it compellingly compares a six year old hopping from rock to rock in a streambed with a lumbering robot failing to do the same task.