Word: rigor
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...greener the comedian, the more he breaks up at his own material. As he ripens, his laughter becomes muted, his smiles iron out. But outside of rigor mortis, he can never approach the rigidity of the Great Stone Face...
...needed to leaven the high court. Walsh acknowledged that the screening process will almost surely produce leaks, thus exposing seriously considered names to public scrutiny-and enabling Presidents to drop unpopular men without loss of face. The quality of the committee's review will depend on the rigor of its investigation. Ultimately, a committee can only discourage the worst candidates. It is up to the President to insist on the best...
Perhaps it is the rigor of being a Princeton athletic hero that has transformed Robby into a Tiger version of The Incredible Foam Man. He wouldn't be the first one. Hobey Baker had to join the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I to find some adventure after Princeton football. And after a couple of years as All-Ivy tailback, Cosmo Iacavazzi had to join the New York Jets' taxi squad to find meaning in life...
...poetic though sometimes muzzy language, he coined the idea of "a theater of cruelty." To interpret the phrase solely by conventional usage is to miss a great deal of what Artaud meant by it. For example, he wrote, "Everything that acts is a cruelty," and "Cruelty is rigor...
...from five to eight hours before 9:30 a.m., when he looked at the body. Even using a very outside limit of nine hours, that would have placed the moment of death no earlier than 12:30 a.m. Dr. Mills admitted that a judgment based on the degree of rigor mortis is "at best inexact"; there was no autopsy. Still, Mills' statement either casts doubt on Kennedy's account as to the time of the accident or, even worse for the Senator, raises anew the possibility that Mary Jo remained alive for a time after the car sank...