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...honor. At the end of the night, drunk out of my mind on Sangria, I sat on a banana. While reveling in the fact, chair dancing and smooshing it everywhere, Michael looked at me and said, "Bill, aren't those my pants you're wearing?" I looked at him, motionless. Silence. Then I began my little jig again. The pants are still lying in my room. Every detergent I've tried hasn't gotten the banana stain out. They should make a laundry detergent commercial about that...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Crimed Tries to Master the Art of Losing | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

Some of the bodies lie motionless on the Ugandan shore. Others float in the breaking waves or bob against tangled beds of water hyacinth. Most are mutilated: limbs slashed, heads missing, a scattering of pale forms indistinguishable from one another except the ways in which they died. The corpses, swept as many as 60 miles by the rain-swollen Kagera River in Rwanda to the edges of Lake Victoria, are the latest evidence of a savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Wrong Country | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...Another man who was called "stuporous" and "motionless...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Third Radiation Study Linked to University | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

...seven patients used in the experiment "lay quietly or even motionless," according to the published study...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Third Radiation Study Linked to University | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

...year-old patient with a frontal lobotomy who was described as "grossly apathetic" and lying in a "motionless torpor...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Third Radiation Study Linked to University | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

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