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...crowd remains silent and expressionless. "The people we see are often too afraid to speak up," says Roberto Carpio, a Christian Democrat lawyer and journalist who is the vice-presidential candidate. "So they use their faces, their eyes and their hands. It's the language of the hands that's very important. It's a campaign of silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Caught in the Crossfire | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...single pal or girlfriend has turned up from those seven sketchy years at Texas Tech. His few acquaintances recall Hinckley as an expressionless blank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drifter Who Stalked Success | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...movie, The Kids Are Alright and its soundtrack album don't nearly do justice to the band's legendary performing style. Peter Townshend plays his guitar by rotating his arm like a vertical helicopter blade; Moon grins and leers through drum solos; John Entwistle, like all bass players, stands expressionless. You can see all this in The Kids Are Alright; but you miss the music. For some reason, Jeff Stein--who put the movie together--chose a few very good film sequences and mixed them up, without any sense of order, with a lot of trashy ones...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: My Generation, Past Thirty | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...ineloquence, as though Piero della Francesca were visiting the nursery. In some way Chardin's absorption in the act of painting paralleled the absorption of children in their games, which he painted. One has only to look at the figure in his portrait Little Girl with Shuttlecock-the expressionless face and white shoulders jammed into the stiff bodice like an ice cream into its cone, the sequence of forms pinned together by accents of blue on her cap, her dress, her scissors ribbon and the feathers of the shuttlecock- to realize the truth of Rosenberg's insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sonneteer of a World at Rest | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...were to paint a picture of the devil, I would use the eyes of Ayatullah Khomeini. They are cold, calculating, cruel, cunning, void of love and honor. I'll take a big toothy smile any day to this man's hard expressionless stare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1979 | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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