Word: inertia
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...arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia. The author has not realized Bette as thoughtfully as she has the other characters, and the reader never fully understands what it is about this girl that so deeply touches the Iris family. But angels are supposed to be a mysterious breed, and despite these flaws, Stevens has made a fine debut...
Interdisciplinary collaborations between widelydivergent fields could potentially occur much moreoften, says Walsworth. "There's an inertia thatexists that people have to get past to think aboutthings more broadly," he says...
...America was better than China. Yet in the everyday dealings of her parents with a world that they did not understand and that accorded them little dignity, the family found ample evidence that America was far worse. This contradiction, among all the others, drove the pubescent Kingston into mute inertia, symbolized on stage by the heroine's spending most of an act strapped into a bed dangling from the ceiling...
...Pink Floyd's current U.S. tour. The 16-year-olds at those concerts -- eager like so many 16-year-olds before them to hear such alienated anthems as Money and Another Brick in the Wall -- may be too young to notice or care about Waters' absence. In pop music, inertia and a name can carry you a long way; with The Division Bell, Pink Floyd is trying to discover just...
...then? Does our government have a rapid-deployment plan, the medical equivalent of a military rapid-deployment plan? Hundreds of thousands of terminal cancer patients would read nothing but good news until the day they died, knowing all the while that their problem was not cancer but the institutional inertia that separates discovery from deployment...