Word: motionlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 750 students, parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
...loses all its verve as the director has his actors take long. Thoughtful pauses between too many lines. He dilutes the strength of many of the songs by having them performed like dirges. When the company joins together for a song. Bundy has them scattered around the stage, standing motionless like figures in Madame Trousseau's, staring out at the audience and singing in low. Steady voices. In their dry, funeral quality, the group songs recall the opening...
...satellites to be carried into space, will be able to hurl them into geosynchronous or stationary orbits at an altitude of 22,300 miles. In such orbits, a surveillance satellite's speed almost exactly matches the earth's rate of rotation; in effect, the satellite remains motionless over a single spot on the earth...
...case, it's a misfired inspiration. Throughout the entire play, actors stumble about the cluttered little set, bumping into furniture and into each other: or, worse, they sit motionless for infinite minutes in Edward Manning's carelessly arranged shadows. The vacillation between clumsy meandering and utter stasis becomes a physical metaphor for tine overall confusion of this unfortunate production...
Using the photo-cinematic method, Gifford composes his novel as a carefully arranged series of short takes moving between past and present, memory and event, reality and hallucination. It's literary impressionism, splicing silent and often motionless pictures together into a frame containing only the essential, electric excerpts of life. These panels, the charged, memorable exposures of life in Franz Hall's mind, are rendered in 85 well-cropped and vivid chapters. Two whole adjoining chapters read as follows...