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...violence, out of which have come the countercrime and violence of the vigilantes. Explains Eduardo Fagundes, who is the present head of the Brazilian bar, "Ten years ago the death squads received open support from higher authorities. Now they act on the belief that the legal system is completely inert...
...keeping up a lively debate between edge and surface in the reactions between the rhythmical curves of the design and the slices made into the canvas by its wooden framing battens. Squiggling, spinning, breaking off into ribbons and trellis-like crisscrossing, O'Donnell's shapes are never inert and only rarely predictable: any artist who can perform with such assurance at the age of 30 will deserve watching over the next few years. - Robert Hughes
...accompany your Death Star: C3PO models, Star Wars Give-A-Show, all manner of action figures, all sadly inert, as well as a plastic model of a "Patrol Dewback" and a Star Wars Playdoh set. For the Star Wars afficionado with everything else, there is the official plastic "Star Wars mini-action figures collector's case...
...Environmental Protection Agency, however, is the worst of the three agencies. Some carcinogenic pesticides continue to be used, although many scientists believe there is no safe level of use. The EPA entirely exempts from regulation what it calls "inert" chemicals, which may be mixed with pesticides to increase their effectiveness, even though many inert chemicals are poisonous. The EPA also uses a data base collected 15 years ago to estimate how much of what foods the average individual consumes today--data which Congress says "borders on the absurd." Since the EPA study was made in 1965, Congress reports, "We have...
...spared none of the brutality. The boy sees everything, including his father's death, watches two soldiers torture mice by frying them on a live wire, "though their faces are as innocent as children," and sees the bloody, inert body of a man whom the enemy has tortured. Contrary to Greek myths, animals do not imitate men, rather the men are brought down to a constant animal awareness of their bodies. They are starving. The land cannot feed us all, thinks...