Word: moribundity
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...neck, puffy and veiled eyelids, stub-like nose and hairless head, it is difficult to determine whether her expression is one of miserable resignation or of defiant helplessness. Her androgynous body is bloated and motionless. Her paradoxically lush and painterly style enhances the painting’s macabre and moribund tone. The pallid fleshy hues that dominate Saville’s palette and the thick, deliberate way in which she applies these colors contribute to an overall sense of impotent frustration and internal rage. The subject is clearly a victim, but is unclear who the victimizer is—perhaps...
...that led George W. Bush to dub him "Boy Genius." Last year the President's political strategist recruited Los Angeles' popular outgoing mayor, Richard Riordan, to run for Governor against the vulnerable Demo-cratic incumbent, Gray Davis--and Rove seemed to be taking the first step toward remaking the moribund California G.O.P. in Bush's image. But Riordan's spectacular defeat in last week's Republican primary suggests that what passes for genius in Washington can look too clever by half anywhere else...
...magazines are canaries in the economic coal mine, Talk sang louder and in a cage more gilded than your average hunting-and-fishing monthly. Brown, a British expatriate with an outsize personality, had revitalized the moribund Vanity Fair and given the tweedy weekly New Yorker a pop-culture makeover. But doubt swirled around Talk from early on. In the era of niche media, many doubted whether readers wanted another major general-interest magazine, particularly one whose mix of Hollywood froth and high-minded reportage largely resembled Vanity Fair's. Its editorial vision--vaguely alluded to as starting a national "conversation...
...high-stakes world of Wall Street mergers and acquisitions, moribund all year, is stirring. That's often a harbinger of a rising economy--and it's not the only one we're seeing. The stock market has been quietly rallying. Initial public offerings of stock remain few, but those getting to market are being snapped up fast for the first time since the last gasp of Internet mania in early 2000. And the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond, a proxy for mortgage rates, shot from 4.17% to 5% in a blink. Higher rates are a burden to borrowers...
...which wind wins - the icy gusts of uphill unemployment and moribund manufacturing, or the spring-minded zephyrs of priced-to-move go-juice, heating oil and natural gas? This is the week in which not the markets or the Commerce Department but the people are going to cast a potentially decisive vote - or at least spin a potentially self-fulfilling forecast of how low the economic temperature is going to go this winter, and how long this recessionary snap is going to last...