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Well, that’s Matt’s narrative path. Matt is kicked to the curb with some hush money (before the opening credits, so don’t get too excited about seeing Harvard onscreen—it’s there, but for less than ten minutes), and heads toward the home of his London-dwelling sister and her English husband...
...sight as unfamiliar in Foxborough as a missed Adam Vinatieri field goal.But both, conspicuously, happened yesterday. Vinatieri shanked a 37-yarder, his first miss in 35 consecutive tries within the 47-yard line, and the Patriots squandered their opening drive of the game.As the ball fell right, a hush fell over the crowd.New England, ultimately, wouldn’t get too many opportunities better than its first.“San Diego was the better team,” New England head coach Bill Belichick said. “They outplayed us. They out-coached us. They played extremely well...
Pregnant teenagers and unwed mothers were once virtually invisible and unmentionable. But now the hush has ended: yesterday's secret has become today's national problem. Says Associate Editor Claudia Wallis, who wrote this week's cover story: "These kids are black, white, rich, poor. They live everywhere. What they have in common is little sense of their own futures...
...that allowed the retention of the Emperor. McCloy's goal, however, was not so much to prevent the Bomb from being dropped as to avoid the need for the invasion being planned at the meeting. The secrecy surrounding the device known as S-1 was so pervasive that a hush quickly fell over the room and exploration of the options was inhibited. When Japan was issued a warning from Potsdam a month later, no explicit mention was made of either the Bomb or the Emperor. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat the warning with "silent contempt...
This fishing village of 1,480 people is a bleak and lonely place, even in a country suspended at the top of the world. Set on the southwestern edge of Iceland, the volcanic landscape is whipped by the North Atlantic winds, which hush everything around them. A sculpture at the entrance to the village depicts a naked man facing a wall of seawater twice his height. There is no movie theater, and many residents never venture to the capital, a 50-min. drive away...