Word: whispering
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...almost hear this eager whisper down the corridors of Orion Pictures: "The Hotel New Hampshire could be the Tom Jones of the American '80s." Same director (Tony Richardson), same teeming fresco of endearing eccentrics, same Rabelaisian appetite for sex as the main course in the banquet of life, same giddy mixture of the farcical and the funereal, same pilfering of every silent-comedy trick from fast-motion camerabatics to actors who step out of character to wink knowingly at the audience...
Similarly, "Gravity's Angel" and "Blue Lagoon" are quiet, meditative pieces in which Anderson's soft strange voice lulls the listener over calm, lush synthesiser settings. On "Gravity's Angel", she alternates her voice between a high whisper and an unexpressive monotone while the music (like "Born Never Asked" and "Let X=Y" on Big Science) breaks in and out of slow, staccato climaxes. "Blue Lagoon" is a static, serene number, which contains one of Anderson's funniest vocal effects since "Walk...
...scripts and performers was acute, his ideas often bold and original, and his eloquence-imparted in a notorious whisper that seemed to compel attention-galvanizing. "I never heard anyone talk about the theater with the intelligence and the excitement and the interest that that man had," said Lillian Gish, who returned from Hollywood to star in Harris' 1930 staging of Uncle Vanya. He brought off such notable productions as The Green Bay Tree (1933), Our Town, in its world premiere (1938) and The Heiress...
...miles-will ensure diversity and hence fairness. Moreover, he believes that commercial broadcasters should pay a fee to support educational and public service-oriented programming on public TV. But the voices of the new technologies, points out Daniel Ritchie, chairman of Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable Inc., are still a whisper. Says Ritchie: "To paraphrase Lincoln Steffens, I have seen the future, and it's still the future. The simple fact is that cable exists for only about 40% of the people in the country. And many of the other much-talked-about new technologies are still just that: much...
...existence of such labor camps, officially labelled "corrective labor colonies," has been known in the West for nearly 30 years. Yet while the issue transcends the confines of national sovereignty and threatens human dignity everywhere, hardly a whisper of this grotesque violation has entered into American political debate...