Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evans was not dead. The electrode on his leg had burned through the straps and popped off. His body was motionless, but as the wires were reattached, he moved as if he were trying to draw a breath. Then came the second jolt, again for 30 seconds. Still the doctors were unsure that Evans had expired. His lawyers made a final appeal, conveyed by phone to Governor George Wallace, on the ground that the punishment had become intolerably cruel and unusual. Wallace said no. It took one more jolt, another 30 seconds, to make sure that John Evans...
...exemplified by their belief that he is a girl, until at 15 he tells them otherwise. He is subject to fits of extreme depression during which he will lie down and refuse to move. Despite truthful seventh-grade "What I Did This Summer" papers--in which he describes Iying motionless in festering ragpiles--on one attempts to direct his aimless stumbling until his freshman year in college. It is then that the audience sees for the first time the product of this hellish existence, as he converses confidentially with the piped-in voice of a psychiatrist, and revisits and rejects...
...into the black set and gold lights. As the dance progresses we see them less as physical beings than as conglomerations of contracting muscles making waves. The concentrated experience of these two bodies rolling on the floor--as if it were the most natural motion possible--leaves the audience motionless for a few minutes after the work has ended...
...price from $9 million to $17 million per chopper (more than an F-16 fighter) and even the Army balked at paying the builder, Hughes Helicopters. The Apache also has a characteristic that its pilots find disconcerting. To fire its laser-guided missile the AH-64 has to hover motionless in the open for up to 30 seconds, a difficult and dangerous business...
When it became obvious that no full-scale chase was in progress, they decided to stay put and gamble on the janitor's not retracing her own steps. For the next 45 minutes they sat motionless and listened while their janitor and one other clanked around Levels One and Two with their cleaning equipment. At 12:55 Jill's nerves gave out and she hid under her desk. At 1:15 the clanking became so insistent that neither of them could take it any more Betting on another rumor they'd heard, that the tunnel to Pusey Library stayed open...