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...Kevin Costner. The plains of the Midwest may be far from the Scottish highlands, but sensitive tribal men vanquish all boundaries. Bekilted and long-haired, Neeson is only concerned with his honor and his woman. Embarrassing petal-strewn love scenes are only a little worse than Rob Roy's lifeless professions of integrity and honor. Neeson's pallid presence does more to ruin the film than anything else...

Author: By Natasha Wimmer, | Title: Neeson's Highlands Fall Romantically Flat | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

Whatever the source of the malaise in Bright Hockey Center was, last night's ECAC quarterfinal game felt less like the vital playoff contest that it was and more like the empty, lifeless Beanpot consolation Harvard suffered through this past February...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Wake Up, Students | 3/11/1995 | See Source »

...Oxford New American Dictionary defines "still life" as "a painting of lifeless things." Unfortunately, in most cases, a lifeless subject means a dull painting. And five rooms full of dull paintings--the MFA's "Grand Illusion: Four Centuries of Still Life"--definitely makes for a lifeless show...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, | Title: Delusions of Grandeui | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...nearby South Heights, "came in this ((Friday)) morning after picking up parts of bodies all night, and he was pretty sick," said his friend Daniel Godich. "He had to take one guy out of a tree in pieces, and that was bad enough, but when he came across the lifeless body of a baby, he came home for a while to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ripped From the Sky | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...size. Between the town of Goma and the airport, a woman dances naked down the highway, cursing at the listless crowds and at the corpses lying on mats by the roadside. A man at the edge of a mass grave laughs in delight when he manages to toss the lifeless body of a child squarely into the middle of the burial pit. A team of laborers is moving bodies from a field to the trucks nearby, when a young man lying among the corpses rolls over. "Get up! Get out of there!" yells the gravedigger. But the man wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry the Forsaken Country | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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