Word: inertly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never bothers to turn on the lights, and as the early evening fades to night, the walls grow ever-closer to her now inert body. She is dozing on the sofa; the beer three-quarters gone. The ash-tray speckled and dusted with the remnants of four half-finished cigarettes...
...fluorocarbons highly inert substances that have the ability to absorb extraordinarily large amounts of dissolved gases performing the oxygen carrying function of red blood cells...
Explaining his new discovery at a symposium on artificial life, Dr. Robert P. Geyer describes the synthetic rats blood as a "milky solution of highly inert flurocarbons and industrial emulsifiers--in fact, not unlike Derek Bok." In a protracted game of double or nothing with Kingman Brewster at the New York Yale Club, Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett Jr. loses the University's endowment. Posing as a tub resting on its own betters, Bennett is choose to be a contestant on Monty Hall's Let's Make a Deal, where he swaps the Harvard Classes of 77-80 for what...
...good part of this attitude is Mailer's obvious awe of power and respect for professionalism, wherever found. But Nixon is even more in Mailer's eyes, not merely a political genius but an artist of the banal, "the Einstein of the mediocre and the inert." In an astute account of the psychological balance-sheet, Mailer sees that one egg thrown at a Republican matron by an antiwar demonstrator "can mop up the guilt of five hundred bombs" dropped on Viet...
...document, then, is for history no longer an inert material through which it tries to reconstitute what men have done or said, the events of which only the trace remains; history is now trying to define within the documentary material itself unities, totalities, series, relations...