Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will mark the end of the sun's active life; its nuclear fires will never again turn on. Slowly it will cool until it is first a white dwarf, still glowing, then a cold black dwarf, a cinder. In the blackness of space, as in Fire and Ice, the lifeless earth will pass into an eternal deep freeze...
...Barbara Hershey a wonderful example of what happens when you provide a mediocre actor with a mediocre script. While she seemed perfectly comfortable as Hannah's pseudo-intellectual sister in Woody Allen's expertly crafted comedy of last year, she appears cryogenically de-animated here, in a role as lifeless as a late-season Nets game...
...economy seemed to rejuvenate itself during the third quarter. The Commerce Department reported last week that the gross national product grew at the respectable annual rate of 2.4% for the three months ending with September. The sharp improvement over the all but lifeless .6% growth in GNP that was posted during the second quarter at least momentarily quieted fears of a downturn. Says Walter Heller, a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota: "There is no recession in sight...
...troops laboriously dug the graves by hand. Officials began to fear that the bloated carcasses of cows, goats, pigs and chickens rotting in the equatorial heat would lead to a cholera or typhoid epidemic. Army efforts were further hampered by the handful of survivors who refused to leave their lifeless villages. In Cha, Kumba Ndongabang sat beneath a thatched platform, staring at the two graves where his five wives are now buried. "All my women die," he grieved, his voice rising and falling with the simple rhythms of the native Pidgin English. "If I go, who make home...
...that the audience goes away appreciating basic human feelings, like friendship. As in Truffaut's 400 Blows, we do not condemn the boys for stealing or cheating. Rather, we appreciate their ability to bring energy and fun to the routine of poverty which renders so many people helpless and lifeless...