Word: motionless
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...holed up in his room, Berenger receives a threatening phone call from the rhinoceroses—there is no sound, but the audience watches with trepidation as he frantically unscrews the receiver to reveal a miniature red umbrella within the phone. In the chilling final set, hundreds of umbrellas, motionless and silent, provide an unsettling backdrop for Berenger’s anguished cries...
...waited to greet them. Mingling among the guests was a man who witnesses later said was in his 20s. A few minutes before 9 p.m., he detonated a suicide belt hidden under a jacket, turning the celebration into a scene of carnage. In the chaos, Daas's father lay motionless, bleeding from his mouth. His son tried to resuscitate him to no avail. The next day many of the wedding guests attended the funeral for Daas's father, held at a cemetery 20 minutes from the Radisson. Nadia's father was buried Saturday...
...trucks outside. When a 4th Infantry Division helicopter arrived, all but three of the evacuees had to be wheeled onto the Chinook, the elderly panting like animals suffering heatstroke, their mouths sagging and their tongues heavy and swollen. One paraplegic woman looked as if she had been broiled, her motionless legs beet red on the front and ghostly white on her calves. The evacuees were frightened, of both their plight and the booming helicopter that was there to save them. As the chopper pulled away, mothers down below screamed after it for rescue, holding their children high and sobbing...
...torpid summer night in Florida, the kind made for watching DVD movies, lying motionless in refrigerated living rooms. Yet here is Eddie Ventrice, 43, tie off, shirt untucked, sprawled in the VIP section of the Muvico Palace theater for a 7:05 showing of War of the Worlds. Sure, he's got a 60-in. set at home as well as a 40-in. flat screen, not to mention a wife and kids. Sure, his ticket cost $18. But here he gets to hang with two buddies and watch killer aliens on the big screen. There's a lobby...
Radcliffe held its commanding lead throughout the entire race, starting strong on the calm, nearly motionless water and maintaining its lead for all 2,000 meters of the course. The weather—69 degrees with only a slight breeze—proved to be one of the Black and White’s greatest assets in the race...