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...symbol of the Ivory Coast's profound cultural disjunction is a huge edifice that rises from flat green fields at Yamoussoukro, Houphouet's native village: the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, which cost some $175 million, a gesture of lifeless grandiosity. Amid the grazing goats and the lagoons, the basilica looks like an ill-shapen mushroom, massive from a distance and strangely sterile up close. Ismail Serageldin, director of the technical department at the World Bank, observed during a recent Cairo lecture dealing with culture shock that there were "certain symbols of a society dissociated from its own people...
Gore, for example, went so far as to liken America today to his son lying lifeless in his father's arms with "the empty stare of death . . . waiting for a second breath of life." Moving briskly from the pathetic to the political, Gore went on, "Our democracy is lying in the gutter, waiting for us to give it a second breath of life...
...often in series. Mutt, commenting on the disastrous effects of alcohol, notes that "Absolut corrupts absolutely." Margaret, dealing with the stress of losing a job by shopping, observes: "When things get tough, the tough get things." A wide variety of puns liven up a script that might otherwise be lifeless...
...essay lays bare how Madonna's supposedly taboo-breaking movie pigeon-holed these groups into lifeless stereotypes. Shedding a harsh light on the pop goddess, hooks reveals how much of Madonna's act is the "same old nonsense" in a pointy...
...goes well, until Eve (Jessica Walling) awakens from her lifeless sleep, a symbol of her creation by God. She has the uncanny ability to call thing by their correct names; what Adam calls a `four-pronged white squirter', she instinctively calls a cow. Her superior knowledge disturbs Adam, but he reassures himself by flaunting his comic abilities--all of which has nothing to do with terrible fate, bit it gives levity to the otherwise grim storyline...