Word: inertly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroine, Arlene (Susan Kingsley), is a reform school graduate just out from behind bars after serving eight years for prostitution, burglary and manslaughter. She is numbingly inert and on the run at the same time. Shaky, vulnerable and living off her psychological nerve ends, Arlene is determined to go straight...
...earlier times, the question posed by this play's title would never have arisen. Life was God's, to give and to take. But medical technology's present ability to sustain inert human remnants poses a fresh moral dilemma. Between medical authority and an individual's right to decide his own fate, who plays...
...avoid radiation, you should do so. But the Pennsylvania doses being talked about are so low that they could not induce cancer in man. Even children and fetuses would be unaffected." Also, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the emissions from the Three Mile Island plant involved only the inert gases krypton and xenon, which are thought to cause little damage to tissue, and not particles of radioactive iodine and strontium, both of which can enter the food chain. Radiation Biologist and Pediatrician Robert Brent of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College agrees that the health risks are small...
...therefore demand that you publicly retract your piece entitled 'Sleazy Letters'. We are not inert objects which can be used for your pleasure any time you want. And we will not be placated by your patting us on the heads and telling us "we're sorry" or "it was only humor." Your 'comedy' presupposed that we are all equal in this society but your racism ensures that the conditions of our oppression remain the same...
...those exquisite oblongs of color, he coaxed an amazing range of effects from a nominally simple format. Sometimes the paint has the grainy opacity of stone, sometimes it is no more than a puff, a vapor with color bleeding through it. It is never crude and only rarely inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works are declarations of the impotence of painting: it could not blot up enough...