Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duong Thu Huong presents an indelible portrait of three northern Vietnamese women and the sacrifices men and communist society wrest from them. The main characters of Paradise represent real women in Vietnam--not the extremes portrayed by the passive Phuong of Graham Greene's The Quiet American nor the whores of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal lacket." Despite their ordinary occupations and status as second-class citizens, though, the women of Paradise are nothing short of extraordinary...
Social Studies, second period, is different. Mr. Goode, usually grinning, begins class by holding his left wrist above his head and looking at his watch. "Fifteen seconds," he says. The students have 15 seconds to quiet themselves and clear their desks for a test; otherwise, they lose "freebies," excuses from detention...
...time Goode finishes counting backwards aloud, they are quiet...
...friend and former campaign scheduler Susan Thomases: "Hillary is a closer. She does not let things drag on." Another observes that "when Hillary leans forward, puts her elbows on the table in front of her and hunches her shoulders ever so slightly, this is international sign language for, 'Be quiet...
...power of the piece, presumably not in a way she would choose, that Redgrave is just good enough to underscore how far short she is of perfection. Most of her readings -- of notable soliloquies and a few scenes in which she plays multiple parts -- are earnest, better when quiet than when kinetic (no matter whom she plays, her posture and gestures look the same). The personal text is better acted, if sometimes too cute. Her impersonations range from dead-on (Maggie Smith) to unrecognizable (Olivier). There are two telling exceptions: she is stunning as both Cordelia and Hamlet, speaking...