Word: motionless
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...Pilgrim and an actor-director named Robert Redford stare at each other--the former nervously, the latter reassuringly. They're both handsome creatures, and the high Montana plain where this confrontation takes place is pretty too. But really, folks--endless minutes of screen time devoted to this silent, essentially motionless sequence? You get the feeling that someone is indulging himself and that his name isn't Pilgrim...
...with the skill one expects of a diva, she didn't have the means to express her performance as passionately as the members of the orchestra. They moved with all of their might to make sounds that impressed the audience, yet she, singing in between their music, remained almost motionless during her performance. This stiffness was directly contrasted if not highlighted by Ozawa's spirited conducting not a foot away from her. He blocked her view at times, and she was clearly there as a supporting character. She also had the misfortune of following in the footsteps of the great...
BOSTON--Sedated and sand-bagged, a large gray-and-white dog named Poochie lies motionless on a gurney. His mouth is wedged open to allow the linear accelerator above his head to aim radiation directly at the malignant tumor blocking his nasal passages...
...reappearance of Hodgkinson was well-received, too, as the interludes between full-orchestral sections allowed the spotlight to fall on Hodgkinson's effortless technique: his hands, often motionless, hovered over the keyboard while his fingers whirred underneath. Whether the cascading piano notes meshed with the backdrop provided by the orchestra or disappeared beneath them entirely, the combination was perfectly engineered. The audience showed its approval in wild applause, delaying intermission until Hodgkinson and Yannatos had been brought back three times...
...pickup, his son Brad works from the saddle of a quarter horse. They stop to watch as a cow lies down, her calf beginning to emerge. Finally, with perfect timing and great effort, the cow clambers to her feet and lets gravity deliver the newborn. It is motionless. Duane watches closely as the mother licks mucus from its face. At last, the calf shudders to life; Duane smiles. "Now, tell me," he says, sweeping a leathery hand past cow and calf, up beyond his sage hills to the peaks of Fossil Ridge. "How much did they say this place...