Word: stuporous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stones tried to break out of their stupor after Jones' death in 1969 by returning to their roots in this country. The result was the bloody Altamont concert, an event which might have finished the group but which actually snapped them out of their self-destructive cycle of drug crises and inspired them to perform the songs they had produced in the studio. They escaped England and America for Southern France and from there re-emerged in the 1970s with not just one fresh look and sound, but a whole series of them...
...leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs the film down before Rollins & Co. have the chance to make it soar...
...truth is I'm really not from Yale," you begin, and before your Cantab residency may be fully explained, she is gone, for good. Which leaves you, in the throes of your drunken stupor, already beginning to forget Beth's favorite New Haven hangouts, with a moral: Before you leave Cambridge, you must either resolve to concede losing a weekend battle in The Rivalry or to find out for yourself what to do at Yale...
...what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day mare-a whoresome lethargy-an indisposition to do anything-a total deadness and distaste-a suspension of vitality-an indifference to locality-a numb soporifical goodfornothingness-an ossification all over-an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events-a mind stupor-a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience...
...kind of a stupor, another world," Cey said two days later, grateful for a rainout and extra time to shake his dizziness. "I feel extremely fortunate to be standing here." On the first pitch, sporting a new earflap on his batting helmet, Cey lashed a single and later dribbled another before leaving with a light head and a .350 average...