At ease with transitions, Mr. Landry looks right at home in the ornate conference room tucked behind the sanctuary of First Church of Christ, Scientist, a landmark that is no longer defunct now that Crenshaw, an upbeat ministry with an upscale spiritual message, has committed $14 million to buy an East Coast outpost on the prominent corner of 96th Street and Central Park West.
Just a decade earlier, a woman could be denied a credit card without a man to co-sign, and yet, by 1985, when the novel was written, the media was declaring that feminism was over, dunzo, defunct — no longer necessary, now that women wore sneakers to jobs at law firms.
The focus on the "signs" leading up to this hoped-for aeronautical excursion is understandably no longer the defunct U.S.S.R. but the ripped-from-the-headlines gift that keeps on giving: the Middle East.
Events like Unsound draw as much from the warehouse techno tradition as they do from the legacy of cultish noise music gatherings like NYC's now-defunct No Fun Fest and the touring International Noise Conference.
Here were East German actors posing as cowboys, acting out scenes of ethnic genocide and transport, expelling Indian communities with calls of, "We will exterminate you!" Now that the G.D.R. is defunct, Germans no longer need to justify their Indian obsession in socialist terms — but, in fact, some still do.
No: Marina Gasolina's (now defunct) group did a lot for the sound, but she's since moved on, as evidenced in the new episode of The Producers.
Like the proverbial parrot, it is dead, expired, defunct, no more.
(That label, which is defunct, has no relationship to the Nashville record company of the same name).
But Starkey's kings and queens of England are no different from their defunct European counterparts - chancers who grabbed power.
Both Jack and Ellie are the children of local dairymen, although the region's dairy farms are long since defunct, in no small part because of the epidemic of mad cow disease that devastated the industry.
