Word: frigidly
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...below, De Chirico's fussy homages to Rubens, Titian or Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth, all in a Roman campagna done from slides-the love among the ruins that dares not speak its name...
...hear them tell it, the climate of relations is at its worst since the most frigid days of the cold war. Nor is the deterioration just a matter of degree, it is a quantum jump downward to a whole new level of nastiness. By Moscow's estimate, the big chill is not merely disagreeable, it is dangerous: World War III, while not necessarily imminent, is more imaginable in the current atmosphere than before. Who do the Soviets blame for this alarming state of affairs? Ronald Reagan, whom they have recently started comparing to Adolf Hitler. The Kremlin leaders...
Hackman is excellent as the frigid father, who represses his grief and most importantly his love for his older son, favoring his younger son who reminds him of his deceased wife. Hackman, like Thomas, seems actually to be mourning, and his lines are delivered with sincerity and credibility, but Schatzberg's interactions between father and son are frequently awkward despite Hackman's excellent performance...
...through a combination of technology and his body's natural defense mechanisms. Prominent among these may be the so-called mammalian dive reflex, which allows whales and seals to remain submerged in cold water. It is theorized that humans also have this protection. The reflex is triggered when frigid water splashes over the forehead and nose; nerves signal the brain to divert oxygen-rich blood from the limbs to the heart and brain. An even more important defense against brain damage is a phenomenon known as sub mersion hypothermia: the extreme cold of the surrounding water, and of water...
Increasingly, the lives of young near-victims of drowning in frigid water are being saved by techniques perfected over the past decade. Jimmy's is almost a textbook example: fire-department paramedics at the scene of the accident immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, fluids and drugs were given intravenously, and air was blown into his lungs repeatedly. At Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, an emergency team labored over Jimmy for three hours. They used electric shock five times to restart his heart, put him on a respirator, and with heat lamps slowly warmed his body...