Word: moribundity
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Nifty Legs. With comedy this season all but moribund, it comes as a surprise to find it popping up in, of all places, a German P.W. camp in Hogan's Heroes (CBS). Natürlich, the World War II Teutons are Dumkopfs, and the prisoners run rings around their captors, blackmailing them into submission with dark hints that if anything goes wrong at the camp, Hitler will send them all marching off to the Russian front. So they allow the captives to print money, smoke their cigars-to do everything in short but escape. It's slapstick Stalag...
...police in scores of bloody pitched battles, burned dozens of cars, and tore up paving stones as ammunition. With Athens in a frenzy, Papandreou hopped off to the boondocks to let the people there know about what he called "the attempts by the Royal Palace to set up a moribund government against the people's will...
...finding himself imprisoned in the moribund Eden that the Finzi-Continis have chosen to inhabit, he breaks off with Micol, begins to live a life on his own. A few years later, he witnesses the final destruction of the family: Alberto succumbs to a malignant disease; Micol and her parents are deported to Germany, presumably to die in the Nazis' gas chambers...
...Burma, its Communists spend as much time fighting against one another as against the army. The insurgent White Flag Communists, after some inner dissension, came out for Peking, while the above-ground United Workers' Party backed Moscow. The Red Flag Communists are a Trotskyite rebel group that seem moribund. Peking may not supply arms to the White Flag Communists, but it gives asylum to their leaders. When General Ne Win held 1963 peace talks with the rebel Reds, several of their chiefs arrived in Rangoon via a Red Chinese plane from Peking...
Hollywood, which seemed moribund a couple of years ago, has always been salvageable. All the movie men had to do was to embrace television. But with a will surprising among the supposedly spineless masters of the picture business, Hollywood for a long time refused. One studio -20th Century-Fox-actually closed its gates for a while, and other studios moved vacantly forward with skeletal staffs...