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Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, noted that the blaze was “yet another major production safety accident that has happened recently” and ordered officials to “overcome a mentality of slackness and pushing one’s luck,” state media said.

Nusken punished defensive slackness to supply the pass for substitute Aggie Beever-Jones to sweep in a late fourth, embellishing Chelsea's 18th successive home victory before Elisabeth Terland scored her fourth Brighton goal of the season in the 90th minute.

The slackness in Reeder’s storytelling works against her down the stretch, once Jonny becomes more focused on solving the mysteries of both the local crime spree and her own family history.

After intermission, the Overture from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” music that punishes any performance that falls short of precise, was more of the same: hellfire-frightening chords at the start, then an insistent emphasis on articulation, patient to the point of slackness, over broader phrasing.

Each work possesses different degrees of slackness and tension.