Word: motionlessness
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...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...
...time posing for the portrait-bearing gold medal they get as an Inaugural gift. But Ronald Reagan not only agreed to three sittings, he had a life mask made. Only Abe Lincoln, whose likeness was sculpted in 1860, had been so masochistic. For 20 minutes the President-elect sat motionless, slathered crown to collarbone with silicone goop, straws jutting from his ears and nostrils. After the 20-minute ordeal, Sculptor Edward Fraughton pronounced him a model model: "He's used to being made up." But not quite so heavily. "Boys," cracked Reagan, "there's one take on this...
This was one of sport's pure moments. Brainard and Ippolito poised and motionless, faced each other at one end of the pitch. The assembled numbers (about 250, four-fifths from Dartmouth), at first grew loud, but settled into an expectant hush. Suddenly, both moved--Brainard flipping the ball high to Ippolito's right, the netminder reaching skyward as the ball slipped by and rippled into the back of the Harvard...