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...electrical appliances in the room. When she went through the front door, she felt she had to pull out of the connection. She visualized the beam tearing, ripping out of the TV and stereo and dangling from her ribcage. When the door closed behind her, she felt shorted, juiceless, inert...
...month or more to achieve. But the paint looks direct and uncluttered; it seems to have been done alla prima, wet into wet, in a few hours. In fact, it is very considered painting. Welliver's accuracy of tone is phenomenal; there are hardly any "holes" and tonally inert areas in his work. With a loaded, flouncing brush he can put in the blue rim of ice around the cold black water of a pond, or the melting rime on the flank of a snow hummock, so that the substance is as palpable as the gesture...
Morse said the current security system is "not inert" and that Canaday may well get a blue light phone. "It's possible to put them anywhere--the system is constantly expanding," he said...
Government should be forced to make choices about priorities, of course. But that is exactly the point. The amendment is morally inert, and as single-minded as a natural disaster: Government by earthquake...
...Trudeau at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.: "It is no wonder that you've given up on the culture. With no credible ego models, what's left but to Garry Trudeau flock to your bookstores and buy handbooks on living preppies, dead cats, inert cubes, living cats and dead preppies-the subjects of the five bestselling titles on American campuses last year? These are books for minds at rest. They are also the books favored by the rest of the nation, which suggests that the post-Viet Nam fatigue syndrome...