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...many layers of clothing that it took most of her energy just to move, she says. As for the scientists, common sense sometimes gives way to a sense of mission. Researchers handling delicate experiments have been known to work without gloves in subfreezing temperatures until their hands were numb...
...giddy, hallucinatory quality, its surprises tumbling out night after night. The wall that divided Berlin and sealed an international order crumbled into souvenirs. The cold war, which seemed for so long part of the permanent order of things, was peacefully deconstructing before the world's eyes. After years of numb changelessness, the communist world has come alive with an energy and turmoil that have taken on a bracing, potentially anarchic life of their own. Not even Stalinist Rumania was immune...
...booming voice coupled with a commanding stage presence enables Lou Ferguson to give Boesman, Lena's abusive mate, the realistic air of a man who has become numb to the pain and hardship of his life as well as to Lena's need for compassion and companionship...
...urged that "we now need political reforms to go even faster" than economic changes. Adamec added, "The country can be ruled only on condition that its people feel confident about the government." It was a direct contradiction of Jakes' doctrine that economic opiates -- adequate housing, food and clothing -- would numb the populace to the desire for political liberalization. So strong was the whiff of reform in Prague last week that hard-line officials went out of their way to deny Western reports that they had received telexes from Moscow urging democratization...
...contrast, the opening act spent its 40-minute set proving that it should have stayed in Texas. Jason and the Scorchers played a number of painfully bad songs, all in the same chord, and the group left the audience numb with fear. This garbage band did its best to sound like outlaws of rock 'n' roll, but despite lead singer Jason's 10 gallon hat, The Scorchers more resembled Megadeath than Tom Petty. But their set wasn't a total loss; the guitarist had some mean tattoos...