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Sometimes, as we see from his pictures, people suffer in a setting stripped of anything that identifies this as the modern world. There are no cell phones, no plastic bags, just rigor mortis on bare ground, and each shot is a primordial scene in which you recognize what the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Prints Of Darkness | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

A. Three is good. This was proved in a secret experiment conducted by the Democratic National Committee--and financed with soft money, since it was considered a party-building activity. As more people entered the room, the Vice President stiffened at a steady pace that one researcher compared to rigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Very Interesting Questions | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Rigor Mortis?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Glory | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

Floyd doesn't just relate the tale, he performs it. He works himself into the role of the dying man, jerking and grimacing with each hollow pop, then polishes off the narrative with a punch line. The dead man never actually fell. He walked outside with five bullets in his...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Seven Comes Up Lucky for Wilson | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

But Valentine's Day, the mercifully brief window of opportunity when the world tolerates the most nauseating displays of cuteness and couples know no shame, has always found me either single or in the rigor mortis phase of a relationship. As a result, I start to cringe the moment those...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Love Bites: | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

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