Word: silentes
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...dustjacket, some readers will be expecting comedy. Your shorter fiction is laugh-out-loud funny ? as I can testify, by citing complaints from people near me when I?ve read it. "Shopgirl" is different, of course. If you were to tape-record someone reading this book in an otherwise silent room, then play back the tape, what would you hear...
...Snee, playing the role of antiques dealer Edward Lawrence, became more animated as time went on contributing many amusing sarcastic facial expressions to the show and retorts to the audience. Chandra Pieragostini could have done much more with her character, Tony's assistant, Barbara DeMarco. She seemed a rather silent sidekick in a role that could very easily have been more dominating and flamboyant...
...Spencer is the most quiet kid on the team, but he's a silent killer," Kelly said. "He doesn't do anything flashy, but he gets the job done...
...campaign against George Bush, an underestimated Dan Quayle (with James Stockdale there as comic relief) embarrassed Gore with tactics that Gore would later use to great effect: staying on the offensive, hitting where your opponent can't defend himself, keeping him off his guard. Quayle kept Gore silent by aiming right over Gore's shoulder at Bill Clinton with mostly personal zingers to which Gore wouldn't respond. The debate didn't save Bush, or Quayle for that matter, but it seemed that debating - such a public-performance event - was not to Gore's strong suit...
...ready conciliation (Disney). Shame is certainly in order for some marketing practices, but entertainment companies could easily argue with the FTC's occasionally alarmist tone and scattered lapses in logic. They could also respond by asking why Gore and Lieberman are concentrating on guns in movies while falling silent on the issue of gun control. Or why Congress has commited itself to video game violence while giving trade benefits to China, where human-rights abuses have escalated (although asking Hollywood to balk at trading with China would be like asking Eddie Murphy to stop making sequels). Instead, Hollywood Democrats...