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...begins with a tableau modeled on the Descent of the Cross. The arms are lifeless, the knees bent, the head (hair artfully mussed) is low, and the whole corpse itself is bathed in perspiration. The first step down from the podium just fails to conceal a totter, but in spite of that the miracle worker somehow manages to reappear forty-six times...
There was more trouble to come. "One of the main electrical circuits is lifeless," Swigert radioed. "It's off. It's dead." The mysterious blast had also affected two of the service module's three fuel cells, which produce the bulk of the command module's vital electrical power. It quickly became obvious that a moon landing was now out of the question; mission rules forbid a lunar landing if even one fuel cell becomes inoperative. The loss of two requires the earliest possible return to earth. Even worse, the second oxygen tank was now also rapidly spilling its precious...
WHAT we are living is less than life. As with Adam, when he lay fully formed yet lifeless, we need the breath of life. The breath of life, that inspiration, can only come from people who are truly living...
...implied anguish, a faint twinge of bitterness behind the witty satire. King's most recent work, titled Farmers and currently displayed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, is not comic at all, but starkly tragic. It consists of a dozen or so limp, lifeless figures fashioned from corrugated cardboard. King ran up a pair of black cotton pajamas for each, made conical hats from brown wrapping paper, and tossed them all in a casual heap on the floor. "I wanted to make a point about Viet Nam," he says, "and this was something I could...
...goliaths. His realistic "Method" training taught actors to reveal the truth of life; the Chinese dismiss this approach as an expression of bourgeois individualism. When a Chinese paper attacked Stanislavsky as a "paper tiger," Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta shot back that the Chinese theater had been rendered "lifeless and paralyzed" by the Cultural Revolution. It has come to that...