Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Meanwhile, the entire stadium fell silent. Quickly, the public address announcer mumbled his bilingual message, "Winner, McGraw; loser, Bahnsen," and then he, like everyone else, got the hell out of there...
...Christmas Eve 1962. Faint echoes of Silent Night twinkle through the frosty air. As Father Patrick J. Sullivan of the Roman Catholic film office recalls the scene, he is off in a small New Jersey parish hearing confessions. Suddenly he is summoned for an urgent phone call. Gregory Peck is on the line, wanting to know why on earth the church has rated his forthcoming film To Kill a Mockingbird unsuitable for teenagers. The priest explains that the ending seems to justify the sin of lying, even though it is in a good cause. As Sullivan remembers it, before Mockingbird...
...core of American optimism. Although he was the first painter to deal with it, he was not the first American to do so. The natural text for Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries ... But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone...
...Only Freddy Jones, one of Britain's great bad actors, hams it up as Merrick's early "owner," Bytes. Moving through the East End streets as if on casters, Bytes is the film's true monster - and Jones plays him like a villain out of the silent horror films...
...pairs of kid gloves and 50 suits of mourning made expressly for the funeral. And during the Revolutionary War, a Tory German matron threw a birthday part in honor of George III. Cantabrigians could hardly keep their temper at that affront, so they surrounded the house in "silent, non-violent protest...