Word: expressionlessness
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...tuna, Thunnus thynnus, is a big fish, weighing up to 1,000 lb (450 kg). It's been around for more than 400 million years, which means it is older than the trees, older than the Himalayas, older than the Atlantic Ocean itself. The species isn't cute. Its expressionless eyes show neither pain nor curiosity, and it doesn't do tricks at aquariums. But it tastes really, really good, and it's on the verge of becoming extinct. Already depleted from overfishing, stocks are down 60% just over the past decade, and the species might be gone within...
JOHN ROBERTS, U.S. Chief Justice, questioning whether Supreme Court Justices should have to attend the yearly address, after having had to sit "expressionless" while some members of Congress cheered Obama's Jan. 27 criticism of the court's decision to overturn a ban on corporate political spending...
...both Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. Khomeini left before the President began his speech. On the day after the event, newspapers aligned with the conservatives printed front-page photographs showing the Supreme Leader kneeling beside Khomeini's tomb alone, while newspapers associated with the reformists pictured Khamenei standing alongside an expressionless Hassan Khomeini. Meanwhile, opposition websites, unconcerned by Iran's press censors, published pictures of Khomeini's grandson embracing Beheshti's two young daughters...
Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and current No. 4, is playing in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the most competitive chess tournament to be played in the U.K. capital in 25 years. Tall, handsome and expressionless, he looks exactly as a man who has mastered a game of nearly infinite variation should: like a high-end assassin. Today, however, he is getting methodically and mercilessly crushed...
...century France, plays like a lost Monty Python sketch. For its modern-day Paris scenes, the movie borrows some set pieces (including the blowing up of the Eiffel Tower) from Matt Stone and Trey Parker's Team America: World Police, an action comedy performed by puppets, from whom the expressionless performers appear to have taken their acting cues...