Word: lifeless
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...past alters under the gaze of new generations. Children raised on the stultifying history textbooks of the past-especially those of the '40s and '50s-are apt to think of the past as a mass of impermeable and indigestible facts: a huge and useless object, as lifeless and impassive as a moonscape. But the past actually teems with an almost irrepressible life, especially in a nation as widely literate and elaborately documented as the U.S. The past constantly achieves renewals and transmogrifications as political symbol and polemical weapon. The present and the past are always in an almost...
Closer to the mountain, the eruption blasted twelve miles of the once pristine north fork of the Toutle River into a lifeless moonscape. Herds of black-tailed deer, bobcats and cougars used to swarm through the valley's hemlock and Douglas fir; elk still wandered in hopeless confusion through the ashen desolation. The river and its source, Spirit Lake, once teemed with steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. All were destroyed by the eruption. TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman was one of the first journalists to see the area by helicopter after the blast. His report...
...characters. Somehow, he's convinced that his world is not reduced to nothingness. But Beckett would have Pozzo contemplate sex, war and food--human experience--like an unfulfilled poet searching impotently for the right word to end a stanza. Horwitz's Pozzo is too animated in a lifeless and desolate wilderness, where the only legitimate spirit takes the form of Godot's messenger, a young boy played ably by Bonnie Zimmering, who doubles impressively as the dancer of a tree in the first...
...least one memorable chill up the spine. Monica (Katharine J. Kean), with her pristine appearance and voice, looks a bit too pure to be a daughter of Baba, but is excellent as the innocent ghost of a dead child. When she sings as a false spirit, her clean, lifeless half-tones convincingly conjure up the image of a dead child searching for her mother...
CHICAGO vs. ST. LOUIS: Two teams that will not go far. Chicago is a grey, lifeless mass, while St. Louis abounds in spirit but not talent. We'll go with the Blues in four, capped by a Checkerdome celebration and maybe even a sell...