Word: deathly
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...live in ashbins. Unable to move from his wheelchair, Hamm is at once in command of this bizarre family unit and yet powerless to fully control his own self. What ensues is the daily, almost ritualistic routine of these characters, who move towards no perceivable end other than death and are incapable of escape from the misery of their lives. Andromache Chalfant’s beautiful, austere set enhances this sense of powerlessness and inability to break out of a static life-in-death. A grey crater of a room floating in darkness above the Mainstage, the set is both...
...expression of inane private thoughts is the attempt to express complex private emotions in Facebook’s limited text boxes. Publicly paraded sentiments are inevitably devalued as a result of their superficial context. This inappropriateness is most apparent when the most personal emotions, such as those associated with death, begin to decorate public forums. When someone with a Facebook dies, his or her profile often remains active, either to commemorate that person’s life or because the family does not have the legal rights to close it. Messages such as “U R missed, sugar...
...political event; during that same campaign he reminded voters he had run before with George Bush on the ticket, and would win again with him on it, despite the fact that Bush had been governor of Texas in 1998. Most recently he practically predicted the imminent death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is being treated for pancreatic cancer, though he subsequently apologized. (See the screwups of Campaign...
These days, she says, suspicion is getting harder to avoid. She has been beaten before, by the security guards of pimps who suspect her of encouraging young victims to escape or offering them help. In the past week she has received several death threats, some so frightening and persistent that she penned a farewell letter to her mother. "I'm scared. I'm scared that I'll be killed," she says, wiping away her tears. "But I will not surrender to that fear. If I do, it means I've given up, and I won't do that. I have...
Paradiso, David • trial of for murder of girlfriend of is rendered moot by shooting to death by police detective of after stabbing of judge by despite the fact that jailers of were warned that weapon was possessed...