Word: moribundity
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Compared with this season's crop of moribund Broadway musicals, Hair thrums with vitality. Nonetheless, it is crippled by being a bookless musical and, like a boneless fish, it drifts when it should swim. Director Tom O'Horgan lashes up waves of camouflage, but distraction is no substitute for destination...
...Minutemen left the Stadium with their first win, a big 21-7 boost before they start their Yankee Conference schedule, and signs of real life from their previously moribund running game. Harvard had for its troubles the first loss of its season and the worst at home in nearly two years, two worrisome injuries, and a quarterback situation once again in confusion...
...improved Conrail bears little relation to the moribund operation that the Government took over. The old line was burdened by excess tracks, rickety roadbeds, union featherbedding and weak management. Shippers used to exchange stories about lost cargoes and goods damaged by frequent derailments...
...unfolding, meanwhile, at the annual meeting of GAP in Charlotte, N.C. Stockholders witnessed a bruising battle between the company's current chairman, Jesse Werner, 66, and Samuel Heyman, 44, a Connecticut shopping-center magnate and owner of 5.7% of GAF's stock, over how to liquidate the moribund company. Factions on both sides have been attacking each other in a blitz of newspaper ads, questioning each other's competence and judgment. At one point, the Heyman group distributed a chart showing how Werner's salary and bonuses had gone from about $160,000 a year...
...foreign troops from Lebanon. Three days later, Reagan announced that he was sending Secretary of State George Shultz to the region this week. His stated mission is to wrap up the withdrawal negotiations, but the hastily arranged trip is also an attempt to revive the President's moribund peace plan, according to which the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip would be linked to Jordan...