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...Move's headquarters, authorities found eleven bodies, four of them children. The fire had destroyed 53 houses and severely damaged eight others. It left some 240 people homeless. The financial cost: at least $8 million. The historic City of Brotherly Love was numb, the onlooking world aghast. In newspapers and on television, the story created a first-glance impression that Philadelphia police had launched a cruel military operation against an entire neighborhood...
...paradox: unrelentingly frivolous, its moribund satire of our techno-whizbang pop culture is ultimately depressing. White Noise swirls with the sounds of contemporary life--televisions, radios, appliances, sirens. The Babylon inhabited by DeLillo's samaritans is awash in information, sensation, and objects of diversion but everyone's so numb they don't mind, and they adopt a fusty capitalist attitude respecting their decadence. As one character earnestly asserts. "It makes you proud to be an American: we still lead the world in stimuli...
...hope. "If you had told / me ten years ago that the war would go on for a decade, I wouldn't have believed it," says a Christian publisher in East Beirut. "Tell me now that it will continue for another ten years, and I will merely shrug. We're numb...
Farley, 48, has spent 20 years of study to reach his Type T theory. In one series of tests with student volunteers at Madison, Wis., he made a connection between drinking and thrill seeking. While non-T personalities may drink to grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become...
Javan T. Bunch '85 said, "I think we're all numb. Suddenly, between all of the No-Doz and the computer paper, something came out and now we're drinking champagne...