Word: hushed
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...reverential hush filled the heavily guarded Islamic community center in downtown Tehran when Iran's Supreme Leader arrived to cast his vote last week in the country's parliamentary elections. "Allah bless the Prophet and his descendants," cried some fellow mullahs and government officials, in a traditional invocation. With his flowing robe, clerical turban and solemn visage, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei seemed to radiate a sacred otherworldliness, at least in the eyes of his followers, even as he undertook the mundane task of placing a blue card listing his candidate preferences into the slot of a cloth-covered ballot...
...sponsorship of these SATC viewings, comes with episode and snacks in hand. Wearing a purple silk flower pin of the sort Carrie popularized, she sets up a pink-tissue-paper-festooned dessert table before admonishing all to “turn off your cell phones.” A hush falls. It’s time to begin...
...sponsorship of these SATC viewings, comes with episode and snacks in hand. Wearing a purple silk flower pin of the sort Carrie popularized, she sets up a pink-tissue-paper-festooned dessert table before admonishing all to “turn off your cell phones.” A hush falls. It’s time to begin...
...hush surrounding Midsummer has nothing to do with its performance at the box office, which has been solid, nor with audience reception, which appears to have been quite positive. It owes, rather, to a deep puzzlement on the part of theater critics and commentators over how to describe the effect of the show or characterize its very rare and very deep success. One local reviewer praised nearly all elements of the production, from the lighting to the comedy to the notorious flying fairies, before confessing his “complicated” and “profoundly ambivalent?...
Midnight trading. Hush-hush commissions. Corrupt executives. The recent torrent of headlines about mutual-fund scandals provides ample cause for outrage among investors. But if you're wondering how badly the industry's shenanigans have damaged your wallet, the answer is, probably not much. A Stanford University study found that overnight arbitraging in funds cost investors more than $4 billion a year. That's hardly a drop in the bucket, but it was widely diluted in a fund industry with $7 trillion in assets under management...