Word: hush
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Mostly because it is . . . well . . . still. For a movie about a series of gory knife murders (and that had the working title Stab), it has an oddly reverential hush about it. This seems to arise less from a regard for the Hitchcock tradition than from a quiet appreciation of its own classiness. As a murdered man's psychiatrist, drawn into the investigation of his patient's death and also toward his suspiciously nervous mistress, Scheider is sober, stalwart and workmanlike, but one longs for the goofy exasperation Cary Grant used to bring to roles like this...
...Theodore Roosevelt," the former secretary said, "envisioned statesmen who would are greatly. Well, you approved hush money for a political cover-up of unprecedented proportions--unprecedented mind you. I think it's sale to say that we all worked for the most daring public official this country has ever produced...
Remember Deep Throat, the shadowy Nixon Administration figure who gave Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward explosive information about the Watergate scandals at hush-hush, dead-of-night meetings in D.C. garages? Ever since Deep Throat achieved stardom in the book and movie All the President's Men, his identity has been one of Washington's most popular guessing games. Now in a new book, Lost Honor (Harper & Row), to be published in mid-November, John Dean, the former White House counsel who provided the first public details of the Watergate coverup, claims to have solved the puzzle. Deep...
...facing its history, Israel with the truth of its experience. And anyone who tries to gloss over this truth because of a suspicion, 'What will the non-Jews say?' is sinning against Israel, is sinning against the sense by which Israel was founded. Those who try to hush the voices will not help ... What have you wrought, Mr. Prime Minister and Mr. Defense Minister...
...inside the palace once before, although he never made to the twelve-room royal apartment. He was arraigned last week in London's Bow Street court on a single charge from his earlier visit: stealing half a bottle of wine. There was speculation that authorities had hoped to hush up Fagan's ultimate incursion, but the incident was revealed three days later when a tipster alerted the Daily Express. The intrusion led to a bruising question period in the House of Commons. Home Secretary William Whitelaw, lamely blaming the incident on technical and human error, was badgered...