Word: motionlessness
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...palette knives; the unpainted walls are covered with scribbly sketches, around which some ornate frames hang randomly like lustrous afterthoughts. This is his laboratory for capturing reality. To it come such models as his brother Diego, who makes furniture in bronze, and his wife Annette, to pose for motionless hours. For each session, they must return to the exact posture that Giacometti wishes; he ensures this by placing position marks in red paint on his studio floor. He works at an agonizing mental distance from his models. One girl, who has modeled for him for three years, has never spoken...
...expected something that we live for." The Glass Menagerie is thus the most Chekhovian play of the U.S.'s most Chekhovian playwright. Its mood is mist before the eyes; yet it is propelled as inexorably as the tides. At its heart is the demonic mover of the seemingly motionless-time. The texture of the play is music: nocturnal, poignant and poetic...
...questioning over, Joan returns to her cell. A dungeon door groans shut. Englishmen's voices cry, "Death to the witch!" Alone, the girl lies motionless, staring; somewhere in the night a barking dog echoes her isolation. Then the interrogation resumes...
...Motionless, and nowhere should he swell...
...most of the 2,508 years since Buddha, the Enlightened, took leave of his disciples. Yet through out Asia today, in one of the little-remarked but momentous sea changes of modern times, the sandaled monks with shaved heads have abandoned Buddha's command to be still and motionless and have plunged deep into politics. While most continue their usual duties of meditating, reading the scriptures, teaching and begging, more and more of them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots, and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy...