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...Busby, who remembers the horrified & exclamations when it was first announced that the nation would run deficits at the rate of $200 billion a year. "We've lived with that four years now, and those deficits no longer have any effect at all. Nobody pays any attention. We are numb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Colliding with Realities | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...under the heat like a hostage; a city of victims. It's a filthy zoo where the animals have two legs and the media is the kids outside, squealing and giggling at the vicious capering of the beasts: "Woman explodes in subway station, film at eleven." The people are numb and helpless, the police impotent, the scum of the earth triumphant. The city desperately needs a hero, a savior--but the Batman vanished years...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...numb and disbelieving Swedes gathered last week to stare at the small pool of blood in the snow where their leader had been gunned down, they wept not just in grief at the death of a shrewd and compassionate man, but at their unwelcome entry into the era of political terrorism. As one commentator eloquently observed, "The time of political innocence in Sweden has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden Bloody Blow to an Open Society | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Fusco captured what was the most disconcerting thing about a really unnerving evening. The visitors seemed numb--like 21 wind-up red, white and silver mannequins oblivious of time and place...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Practice Makes Perfect | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...make matters worse, Crimson goalie Tracee Whitley suffered a temporary injury to her left hand early in the game. In a collision with an Eagle forward, a nerve was damaged, leaving her entire hand numb for several minutes...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Boston College Ties Booters in Knots | 10/9/1985 | See Source »

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