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...York housewife. "I'm so tired of everything being made slick and plastic and impersonal." Housewives also value its practicality: while wool blankets tend to emerge from the washing machine feeling like congealed cardboard, cotton thermals neither stiffen nor shrink, and they do not carry the static electricity that is the plague of lightweight synthetic brands...
...swampy coast near Brunswick, Ga., as the loudest continuous sound ever made by man shook both land and sea. For 64 roaring seconds the gigantic flame rivaled the sunlight while a column of light brown smoke climbed high in the sky. Then the fire stopped abruptly. The first static test of the most powerful rocket motor ever built was a complete success...
...time, Sternberg's films were criticized for being static, plotless, "two-dimensional fabrications." Today film buffs recognize his early Salvation Hunters and The Blue Angel as masterly classics, but recognition has come too late and.too grudgingly to allay Sternberg's bitterness, which infects his vision and distorts what is otherwise a fascinating narrative...
Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken may be the sort of static introspective play that is actually better read than seen. If faultlessly performed it might make robust drama, but the current production by the Theatre Company of Boston is not faultless...
...destiny, he dominated the consciousness of his country and finally the West for three decades. At times rash and impetuous, at times cooly rational, always active, aggressive, directing, he made his voice heard whether in power in the Commons, out of office from Chartwell, or in War over static-filled radio. And he prevailed. Despite the stooped shoulders, the squat figure, the pudgy features, we see him in a grand tableau of English history. He belongs on the field at Blenheim, on the deck of the Victory, in a hushed Commons because he believed he belonged there...