Word: emotionlessness
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...sister Diane, 29, testified that they had urged their father to have John institutionalized but that he had refused, concerned that it would do more harm than good. Scott, who works with his father, described his brother as a loner and noted that "John was a very emotionless person...
There was Ragen, the psychotic and angry rapist; Arthur, a rational and emotionless Englishman (replete with accent): Allen, the con man; Danny, the frightened adolescent; Adalana, the introverted lesbian (three of his personalities were female); Philip, the thug; Kevin, the planner; Walter, the Australian big-game hunter; Lee, the comedian; Bobby, the daydreamer; and some 14 others. By securing the confidence of Milligan's main incarnation, Billy, the doctors elicited from the defendant information about each of his personalities...
What Rafelson ends up with, then, is a period piece, haunting in its intensity, but ultimately, distant and emotionless. We end up watching it like clinicians. Maybe disgust and rage really are apt subjects for nostalgia--and a lot would probably say that it's a good thing. But maybe that's what they really meant by the Big Sleep...
...hockey fans know that if the Romanians win this game, the United States will be better off in the standings, so the support of the mainly American crowd is unanimous. But soon, even for the novice hockey fan, it's clear that this is not hockey USA style. The emotionless players barely pause after they score a goal. This quiets the back-slapping American crowd a bit, but even towards the third period, it still looks like the fans care more about the score than the players...
Rubinstein confesses to feeling out of tune with today's world, in which "moral ethics have no place" and music is dominated by "emotionless" composers like Pierre Boulez. But he refuses to join those readers of his first volume who saw him as a throwback to a better age. From his earliest years, he says, the world has shown him so much mistrust, hypocrisy and greed for power that he is not sure there ever was a Belle Epoque. More likely, with his talent, ebullience and "unconditional love of life," he has created his own epoch...