Word: numb
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...school-age Dahmer at exactly the point when he went over the edge, killing his first victim a few months after graduation. As Derf recounts, Dahmer's behavior became increasingly bizarre: faking epileptic seizures, imitating cerebral palsy, drinking six-packs of beer every day before school, and becoming so numb to school-yard abuse that bullies eventually got bored. Unlike "Trashed," Derf does not play this misery for laughs. His normally goofy drawing style, full of oversized heads and knobby knees, gets toned down. The shading gets heavier. But where "Trashed," tells a real story, "My Friend Dahmer," never feels...
...what now? The recent undulations of the conflict have left ordinary Israelis and Palestinians numb with shock and the rest of the world bewildered by a conflict that seems without end. In the frenzy of mortar fire, bombings, hurried press conferences and banner headlines, four key questions emerge...
...depersonalized term that reflects the feeling that there is no one responsible and no control possible. Like an enigmatic curse or a supernatural vapor, The Situation has come and settled in. In this atmosphere of powerlessness, people oscillate between being oversensitized and being numb...
...cycle of killing in Israel and the occupied territories has become a death spiral from which there seems to be no escape. More than 50 people died in a three-day exchange of suicide attacks and air strikes that left even hardened veterans of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict numb with disbelief. As it always does, escalation brought with it the perverse hope that both sides might finally be persuaded to find a way out of the madness. Late last week top Israeli and Palestinian security officials met under CIA auspices to discuss a cease-fire, and the Israeli army eased...
...cycle of killing in Israel and the occupied territories has become a death spiral from which there seems to be no escape. More than 50 people died in a three-day exchange of suicide attacks and air strikes that left even hardened veterans of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict numb with disbelief. As it always does, escalation brought with it the perverse hope that both sides might finally be persuaded to find a way out of the madness. Late last week top Israeli and Palestinian security officials met under CIA auspices to discuss a cease-fire, and the Israeli army eased...