Word: motionlessness
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...first time in 17 months, the planes and cannon of Israeli and Arab alike lay motionless in the troubled Middle East, silenced by a cease-fire that was brought about by patient diplomacy and the realistic fear of Russia and the U.S. that they were approaching an undesirable confrontation. In Bonn, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt prepared to fly off to Moscow this week to sign a hard-won treaty with the Soviet Union that in effect marks the close of World War II in Eastern Europe...
...Brine, and reported by both Ruth and Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the story was edited by Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson and researched by Virginia Adams. The idea was conceived when Ruth Brine moved to Manhattan's Upper West Side last fall. "I saw those rows and rows of motionless old people sitting all day long on the benches on the smelly traffic island that stretches all the way up Broadway," she recalls. "I also began to be aware that my friends were spending as much time discussing what to do about their parents as they were about their children...
HUNTLEY wanted to find the octopus. He found a braingray sac pressed into a corner of stone and glass, with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive or dolorously malicious, and that for all I know-and I would much rather think so-he was bouyant with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They...
...butterfly. Fluttering above or resting on shelves, Japanese kites wait to be chosen for a part in the next film. A glass-sided storage case displays the cowries and conches that starred in a 1967 film proposal for a National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. Indian and oriental tops lie motionless on their sides, recuperating from their featured billing in 1969 (Eames' film entitled Tops...
...particularly beautiful picture by George Caleb Bingham, a canoe moves across the canvas on a glassy river. A yellow glow from the side lights the figures of a man who has stopped paddling for a moment and of his passengers, an Indian boy and a fox. All three sit motionless, staring at the viewer as though he were sitting on the bank. The uniform pale yellow-grey sky seems to stretch in all directions beyond the frame that cuts...