Word: stillborns
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...cranium was empty," O'Connor said. But the brain was not removed in Dallas. Lifton found other witnesses who saw a small object wrapped in a sheet being moved through the hospital halls on a cart. When asked what it was, the cart handler said it was a stillborn baby. Lifton found that Bethesda records showed no stillbirths that...
Despite a trio of transcendent performances and occasional moments of mercurial passion, A Lesson from Aloes is curiously stillborn. Fugard relies far too relentlessly on talk, the inspissated venom of the impotent. It is as if his cha acters were constantly grappling fate at the tonsils, rather than grabbing it by the throat...
...union with Libya might conceivably work to its benefit. But such merger proposals, offered in the name of the "Arab nation," have a notoriously poor track record. An Egypt-Syria merger fell apart in 1961. An Egypt-Yemen union dissolved the same year. A proposed Libya-Egypt federation was stillborn in 1973. Thus the latest proposal was greeted with skepticism on almost all sides. Anwar Sadat denounced it as "funny and childish," and added scathingly: "The destiny of the Arab nation is placed in the hands of children...
...fact there was far less to the diverting little drama than met the eye. Though front-page stories in the U.S. anxiously warned that the action by Nigeria had dealt a serious blow to oil companies and consumers alike, the Shagari government had done nothing of the kind. The stillborn scandal really amounted to something considerably different from what the overeager press reporting in Lagos and the U.S. implied...
...died the way false prophets are supposed to die, washed ashore on the sands of a stillborn ocean, forgotten except in the frenetic words of the man who made him Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road. And now they're trying to bring Neal back to life, bring Jack back to life, make Carolyn rich and famous. Don't they know that what's dead is dead, that Neal and Jack are dead, that the fifties are rotting away under Time's tombstone, that the sixties are dead, that Christ! even the seventies are dead...