Some 750,000 on strike and playing for unbelievably high stakes, a government pledged to complete unfinished Tory business – and still, a deathly cultural quiet.
Walking home after seeing the Blair Witch Project at the local lido multiplex, a thing ran across the pavement in front of me and maybe it was a massive cat or maybe it was a deathly monster.
A young girl dressed like an angel, her face painted deathly white save for her red lips and the bright pink crescents around her eyes, is led on horseback through a curious crowd.
Digging their heels in over the issue of elected mayors, South and West Yorkshire carved out wishy-washy deals with the Treasury which were deathly pale in comparison with that being celebrated and ever-embellished on the other side of the Pennines.
The weekend should not pass without acknowledging it is 25 yearson Sunday since 14,838 people put a tick by the name of the Valley Party in the Greenwich elections and Charlton Athletic could set about moving home and ending a deathly ground-share with Crystal Palace.
They look emaciated and deathly.
None were dead by this mid-week, though, and leaders on both sides seemed to feel that their peace process, though deathly sick, was not finished yet.
In a different political climate, one would say that the scandal is moving into its deathly serious phase, with the death part referring to Bill Clinton's career prospects.
Retail banking, once mocked as deathly dull at the white-shoe firm, will become its "fourth leg".
Like the paintings of Edvard Munch, they often have a deathly pallor about them.Ms Dumas likes to infuse her art with religious themes.
In the deathly hush that followed, General Motors launched a wave of discounts and credit incentives in a campaign to "keep America rolling".
