Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burning of a local black church, which had been bought and would be rebuilt to the congregation's specifications. "It was freezing that night," recalls Bob Penny, who played the role of one of the white conspirators, "and it was frightening. As the church burned, you could literally hear the silence of the people. At one point Parker shouted out his usual 'Don't act! Stop acting!,' and I said, 'I ain't acting -- I'm scared...
...Nicaragua) and Mississippi Burning. His FBI agent bears traces of early Hackmen. Anderson, like Buck Barrow, repeats favorite anecdotes and plays dumber than he is; like Popeye, he wears stumpy ties and catches bad guys on his own obsessive terms. And at the end of each sentence you hear the Hackman laugh: nervous, infectious, conspiratorial and, at bottom, lethal...
Hackman can laugh all the way to the bank; at almost $2 million a picture, $ the money adds up. But even a workaholic must hear the ticking of a gold watch in his future. "There's a big part of me that wants to quit," he says, "and I'm listening more and more to that voice. But I tried pulling back before, after Superman in 1978, and found out there wasn't much else I was suited for." That's O.K. Hackman's job -- and his capstone role as Anderson -- fits him as snugly as the gray suits...
...than 60 summers in this lovely coastal Maine town without a single metal detector, but then he never was President-elect. Trouble was, there were too many people for the lone detector. The police finally said the hell with it, just before Bush began, and let everyone in to hear the speech. "We're going to need more of them," sighs Roland Drew, chairman of the board of selectmen...
Although the statistics prove otherwise, many Harvard students still refuse to believe that athletes are as academically able as their non-athletic peers. As members of varsity teams and as representatives to Atheletic Director Reardon's Undergraduate Advisory Committee on Athletics, we repeatedly hear of instances in which Harvard's academic standards are not compromised for any applicant's athletic skills. The Admissions Committee strives for diversity in excellence in the candidates it selects, regardless of whether it is manifested on the cello, the stage or the diving platform. And the implication that athletics is somehow less intellectual an activity...