Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rival and mirror image -- a cool, reserved fellow who skis with a risk taker's wild flair -- was .05 sec. ahead, then .23 sec. A big outdoor TV screen showed Zurbriggen so close to disaster on one free-falling left turn that his hand scraped the snow. Muller watched, motionless, as Zurbriggen flashed past the finish .51 sec. in the lead. He did not react as Pirmin, exulting, raised a ski and kissed it. Muller was just one of skiing's centurions. Zurbriggen was fortune's newest darling...
Goetz stood utterly motionless while Jury Foreman James Hurley pronounced 17 times the words "Not guilty." Not guilty of the attempted murder of Troy Canty, 20, and Barry Allen, James Ramseur and Darrell Cabey, all 21, even though the reedy, bespectacled gunman had said in a taped confession that he "wanted to murder" all of them. Not guilty of assault against any of them, not even Cabey, left paralyzed and brain damaged. The courtroom audience gasped at several of the verdicts and at the end applauded...
...staring outward much of the time, as if on the deck of a Cunard liner, or to dip into that biography of Abigail Adams you gave her (a lady for a lady), at manageable intervals. Television interests her not, except occasionally the nature shows that PBS specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older the anecdote, the clearer in detail. Typical of her much analyzed years, she will forget the sentence before last but in the next will come up with a name from 1923 and a Gershwin lyric that, once sung, swims...
When we first meet the young protagonist of A Nite-Lite, acted with appropriate repulsiveness by the playwright, he is returning home from work, dressed respectably in suit and tie. His initial encounter with the motionless, battered body beside his front door arouses his sense of pity. He addresses the formless mass politely as "sir," and even brings out a plate of food. But as the homeless person fails to acknowledge these gestures, the young man grows increasingly annoyed and impatient. He begins throwing scraps of food at the human heap of rags and soon dumps the entire plate...
...animals stand motionless in gold-white grasses -- zebras and impala, Thomson's gazelles and Cape buffalo and hartebeests and waterbuck and giraffes, and wildebeests by the thousands, all fixed in art naif, in a smiting equatorial light. They stand in the shadowless clarity of creation...