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...dispirited for the entire duration of the film, as if she's trying to rise from the dead. And she still seems like a zombie at the end, despite giving birth to a new life. She has divorced her personality from her body, and it shows in her vacant gazes...
...February of this year, the council was forced to resort to paper balloting during special elections to fill vacant seats in 11 districts...
...just don't get him," he complained. He was working on the first authorized biography of a sitting President, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Part of Morris' mountainous $3 million advance was already earning interest in the money market. "He seems so vacant, so empty," Morris complained. "Yet he did great things; he was a great President. Maybe as great as Teddy Roosevelt." Edmund had won a Pulitzer for his 1979 biography of the heroic...
...judge sent Ovando to prison for 23 years after two anti-gang squad members, who had allegedly shot him multiple times, claimed he had threatened them with a rifle. L.A.P.D. partners Rafael Perez and Nino Durden had been working undercover in a vacant apartment in a building known as a gang hangout. They said they were forced to shoot Ovando when he burst in. Their story seemed a bit iffy--"He has a semiautomatic with a banana clip, yet they both manage to pull out their pistols and shoot?" asks Tamar Toister, who defended Ovando--but the testimony seemed persuasive...
What may most surprise listeners of The Fragile is Reznor's disclosure that his rooting around in the dark side has revealed light. Not religion exactly, but spirituality. "I was in a spiritually vacant zone," he says, "and I rounded a corner. I believe there's a purpose and a karma that's real. If it's right for you, embrace it." Embrace the album too, if you dare; but be careful, it's fragile...