Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover picture of the ashen, waxy, lifeless figures of Reagan and Andropov standing back to back is chillingly accurate. This image of two grim duelists, neither of whom has anything to say to the other, offers little hope to a world awaiting the outcome of a mutual suicide pact. Bart Whiteman Washington...
...four published novels before Animal Farm are readable but minor performances. His women characters are particularly stiff and lifeless. He was not an imposing political theorist; his strength lay in recognizing problems, not in propounding detailed solutions...
...lifeless campaign's most inspired moment, in fact, may have been its last, the work of former Governor Albert ("Happy") Chandler, 85. When Collins' victory speech had rambled on too long. Chandler sidled up to the microphone. Kentucky voters, he said, should be proud to have elected a woman so "well trained and well educated." Then, smiling and sweet-voiced, he softly began to sing My Old Kentucky Home. The crowd joined...
...they manipulate. Trio along with other European rock bands (like Flock of Seagulls, etc), is basically the abba of the '80s: they steal the style from other musical forms (i.e., New Wave minimalism) and take the inspiration and soul out of them, thus creating a set of catchy but lifeless imitations that provide easy listening on the radio...
Saturday's 2-1 loss to powerhouse Hartwick--when Captain Leo Lanzillo said, "You know you were playing soccer"--brought out the best in the Crimson, but the booters were unable to sustain the same level of play against the slow, lifeless Minutemen...