Word: motionlessness
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Suddenly the man stopped, in midsentence, and his face lost animation; his mouth froze, still open, and his eyes became vacuously fixed. For a few seconds he remained motionless. I spoke his name, but there was no reply. Then he began to move a little, he smacked his lips, his eyes shifted to the table between us, he seemed to see a cup of coffee and a small metal vase of flowers; he must have because he picked up the cup and drank from it. I spoke to him again, and again he did not reply...
Sure, there are too many prime-time cartoons on the air, but remember, each new half-hour of animation means one less lame sitcom. Here the creator of Dr. Katz has transformed his motionless SquiggleVision technique into moving animation, and in doing so has sacrificed some of the banter for which the Comedy Central program is known. But this show, about an eight-year-old who makes films and his mother (Paula Poundstone), is more than smart enough to make you wonder...
With two flaps of its wings, the hawk suddenly took off and roosted in an elm. After a few minutes, I began to notice that the squirrels in nearby trees had ceased their usual pitter-patter. They pressed themselves tightly against the bark, utterly motionless, tensed against a predator they could sense but could not see. An ancient dance between predator and prey was being performed; with the exception of our little crowd, the hurrying students and tourists were oblivious to the drama...
...Ardennes Forest" goes on to explicitlyaddress this problem. It contrasts the thousandmagical fluttering eyelids with "a thousand lidspressed/ tightly on motionless eyebrows,"presenting the ancient Ardennes along with itsidentity as the setting for the Battle of theBulge, and in the end Herbert asserts that even"the dead also ask for fairy tales," eschewing thepost-World War II idea that fanciful poetry is nolonger appropriate, associating fairy tales forthe dead with "a handful of herbs," "needles byrustling / and the faint threads of fragrances":concrete instances of the sleepy and fantastic innature that persists in spite of human history.Herbert would honor...
...CLINTON'S GRAND JURY TESTIMONY An uncut four-hour videotape, taken by a motionless camera trained on one man talking. Disembodied background voices; absurdist dialogue about the word is--nothing so avant-garde has ever been broadcast before. Free of punditry, it was the highlight of Monica...