Word: moribundity
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...observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific islands, from New Guinea to Easter Island to Hawaii. His goal was to retrace, in part, the bold voyages of early Polynesian seafarers who gave this vast area a common culture, now corrupt and moribund. Theroux took the big hops by plane or ship. But his preferred mode of travel was a collapsible, 16-ft.-long French-made kayak, which he paddled -- carefully -- through dangerous waters infested by crocodiles, sharks and stinging Portuguese man-of-wars...
...October 1990, the BSA and Afro-American Studies concentrators met with top Harvard officials to discuss the need to revive the moribund department. After an unproductive meeting, the Afro-American Studies concentrators staged a sit-in at University Hall to dramatize their demands for more faculty...
...operations in general and the U.N. in particular. In response to more questions from Lewis, Powell recalled that the U.N.'s founders established a Military Staff Committee, composed of representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council, to direct peacekeeping activities. Noting that the committee had been "moribund" through the cold war, Powell said he would now like to see it made "more relevant...
...idols include James Taylor and John Wayne, who prances across stage like a cross between Mick Jagger and Ferris Bueller, swinging from rope ladders and smashing his guitar, and who brings 40-year-olds to tears with his existential hymns about accepting life's incidental malice? Rock may be moribund, but Garth Brooks sure is thriving...
...Berkeley-style fantasy. These shimmering daydreams, afloat in dark space, pay homage to a bygone Broadway and to the movies of the pre-World War II era that have preserved its style for latter- day audiences. Between the wistful glints of remembered magic unfolds a plot aptly concerning two moribund musical theaters, one on the Great White Way, the other in dusty Deadrock, Nev. In both cases the solution is said to be simple: put on a bouncy, pretty, old-fashioned and campily funny extravaganza, heavy on ostrich feathers and light on social significance, and people will come flocking back...