Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broken Marriage. Bullock's medical monopoly did not bring him large financial rewards. "My income was static for almost 20 years," he says. The charge for a typical office visit was $4, including medication that he prepared himself. Some of his patients say that he was lax about collecting bills...
None of the plastics is without its disadvantages: most are easily scratched -although some chemical firms are soon to market a nonscratchable film designed to protect plastic surfaces. The acrylics often build up a large charge of static electricity, which in households with pets can produce strangely hairy furniture. The static electricity also attracts dust to the plastic surfaces, adding to the housewife's cleaning problem. Some of the chemical compounds have another problem: in Chicago, a furniture buyer brought home a clear plastic coffee table, which he set down next to a fireplace. "Next," recalls his boss...
...Lieut. Jennings had reason to be defensive. His mother is Martha Mitchell, loquacious wife of Attorney General John Mitchell. "My identity always catches up with me," complained the 23-year-old son of Martha and her first husband, Clyde Jennings. "When they find out who I am, I get static from the things she says. I have to show a great deal of humility...
Hopper paintings are not to be taken as quaint studies of Cape Cod dunes or static scenes of raucous city life. No drinkers carouse at Hopper's bars, no oil-skinned fishermen haul Hopper's nets. He is an intense artist of the arrested moment, of the intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight...
...picnic in the country. Minutes later he commits a lurid and unmotivated suicide. The teen-age girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Lucien John) abruptly find themselves at the mercy of the outback, their only companion a sputtering portable radio. Ironies thereupon crowd the air like static: the instrument crackles with irrelevant news of the world while the two urbanized refugees fight elemental dread...