Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Polonius. The drawing-room virtues of reticence and gentility are considered dead in the Age of Prurience. Yet they still govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
Scorsese's style is still intelligently abustle: fast dissolves of an opera audience, a quiet riot of gold when the blond countess receives yellow roses from Newland, a slow-motion vignette of working men -- the people whose labor subsidizes the idle class. Throughout, he shows he can be as attentive to the tiniest twinges of the heart as he has been to the gunfire of taxi drivers and goodfellas. Here, instead of shouting, people speak softly and in code. The movie is 135 thrilling minutes waiting for someone to come to the point. And that is the point...
...with his two-year-old daughter, Kiveli. He lives in a cozy apartment in the leafy London suburb of West Hampstead and relishes beach time in Greece and good laughs over beer almost anywhere. He is, in other words, a rather normal guy with a sly smile and a quiet manner...
...personality was "incredibly quiet and verysweet," Landin says. She was friendly tospectators and played an important part in hismusical act, says Landin...
...quiet in Harvard Yard, the construction still continues, but six newly renovated first-year dorms emerged from the scaffolding just in time for the Class of 1997 to move in this weekend...