Word: stupors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was nothing to think about except the peculiar fact that a D.C. dominatrix had been one of the first 12 people on earth to learn about life on Mars. That and the important finding that the macarena is a remarkably effective way of rousing people from life-threatening stupor...
...could bestow, would appease the mountain god--the source of good fortune (in the form of rain to bless the crops) and terror (snowstorms, earthquakes and avalanches) to Inca culture. Did she march bravely to the center of the ceremonial platform, or was she dragged there in a drugged stupor? Was she killed by the priests who brought her, or was she left to die from exposure, cold and very alone...
...second enticement to this collegiate haven is that for those without a discriminating taste for beer, those possessing an admirable tolerance for the watered down liquid on tap, a respectable college drunken stupor is a mere ten dollars away...
These provisions not only place other companies at a disadvantage, but also create a drug-induced stupor where industries do not need to make the changes necessary to stay competitive and productive. And most importantly, the subsidies raid the public purse to benefit narrow interests. At a time when we are told that the government does not have the money to fully provide for Head Start, the Americorps, Charter Schools, and real welfare reform, a budget that authorizes a $600 million tax credit for cattle-raising is an insult to all Americans...
Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...