Word: moribundity
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...minimalists and the conceptualists, they seem equally moribund. Robert Irwin's recent show, in fact, might be taken as minimalism's last testament. When one entered the gallery, there was apparently nothing in sight. It turned out that the work of art was a stretch of gauze running the length of the exhibition room but set two feet out from the real wall. It was white, and looked like a wall. The best the conceptualists could do was a show by that professional enfant terrible, Les Levine, that featured drawings of five dozen or so Watergate characters, along...
...real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard: "On that previous occasion Holmes wished to employ Toby in order to trace an orangutan through the sewers of Marseille," one comes to rue moribund Watson's addled state or to suspect the young Meyer of a deceitful forgery...
...quibble? Call it 100% Dead and be done with it. Indeed, the cute title, like the pop-art credits and the ironically intended voice-over narration are in effect mortuary cosmetology-attempts to give an illusion of life to a moribund turkey...
...claim. Indeed, a large part of the world takes time out for the Cup. Since the final rounds began in West Germany three weeks ago, Rio de Janeiro factories have shut down, and criminal activities in the city have hit an alltime low. In Rome, efforts to restore a moribund government were disrupted when three Socialist leaders walked out of negotiations to watch a match. In Australia, people stayed up all night to see broadcasts from West Germany, and in the African nation of Zaïre, bus drivers abandoned their vehicles when the Zaïre Leopards took...
...part, to the Viet Nam War and Washington's turning away from Europe to Asia. It can also be partly traced to the obstructionism of France and Charles de Gaulle's decision to kick NATO troops off French soil in the mid-'60s. But NATO is far from moribund. Coming after the squabbling within the alliance last winter, the Ottawa meeting offered reassuring evidence of that fact. The meeting changed nothing except the atmosphere, but that in itself is of some importance. The new French government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing seems much more committed to the alliance than...