Word: dumbstruck
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...problem here is a familiar one: reverence for a literary source, a delicate novella by Tillie Olsen, has rendered its adapters dumbstruck. Trying to remain faithful to her realistic surfaces and unable-except through uninformative flashbacks-to reveal the inner workings of Eva's sensibility, the film makers have avoided anything that might be melodramatic or even openly emotional. All the suffering in Tell Me a Riddle is thus stoic, all triumphs without joy. Movement is glacial, dialogue wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry...
...first, the vigilers seemed only dumbstruck, but anger was quick to follow. When the AAA member left, it was unclear whether the BSA and AAA would publicly denounce the sit-out, or merely withhold their support. (As it turned out the next day, various leaders of these groups participated in the sit-out activities.) The sky was getting lighter by this time, and the coming day was clearly The Enemy, a foot-tapping, non-verbal "Hurry up please, it's time." The approximately 120 people who remained had no idea what to expect: perhaps they would have to cancel...
...years ago, when police brutality was a much hotter issue, Wylie delivered a blistering speech from the floor of the City Council chambers, condemning the excesses of the police department, "as half the force and their wives sat dumbstruck in the audience...
...first few minutes after 5 a. m. last Ap??, one of the chants that rose from dumbstruck ?tators around University Hall was "Pusey Mus? Pusey Must Go!" The chant died gradually? curiously did not reappear...
What is a would-be poet to do when he finds he has nothing to say? Fortunately for him, the 20th century has an art form for everybody. The dumbstruck poet may now make his mark as a "concretist," practicing a definition-defying new discipline derived in equal measure from pop art, typewriter doodles and the undeniable truth that a poem is, after all, just so many letters arranged on a page...