Word: inert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first impression is one of vitality and variety. The exhibition rooms of the Costume Institute at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are bursting with lavish clothes: swift little contemporary silhouettes; magnificent ball gowns seemingly from a grander, more inert age; fantastical garments of no recognizable provenance. A few are so ugly that the eye looks away; many more are heartbreakingly lovely. They are all the work of one man: Yves Saint Laurent, 47, the most famous and influential clothing designer in the world, the king of fashion...
...drafted her knew she was a dancer to partner even the great Astaire. But few of them would have expected her to keep up with his wry, off-beat brand of comedy. She fills both assignments in You'll Never Get Rich. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar...
...Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry the theatrical idea. Longo is not much of a modeler; his striking talent for rendering does not extend into three dimensions, so that on closer inspection the faces and bodies in the sculpture are pedantically inert, like those "solid photography" busts cut with a laser device...
...certain amount of stolid dogmatism deadens the debate. The terms themselves - free trade and protectionism - have be come inert and somewhat pointless. The best approach is one of subtle, intelligent and infinitely imaginative flexibility. The U.S. has its responsibilities as the economic power of the world. But it can still negotiate and persuade and improvise in the cause of its enlightened, aggressive self-interest. By Lance Morrow
...West, are busy boring and clicking like so many deathwatch beetles within the facade of idealist kitsch known as Soviet socialist realism. But it is hard to see how they could ruin it more thoroughly. K & M's paintings are not merely banal, but excruciatingly so, oily and inert, varnished so heavily that three-quarters of the surface is glare; the eye gropes for the cliches that lie embedded in them. The accretion becomes a kind of conceptual art, holding everything in quotation marks...