Word: hushing
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After the Deputies had paused for a minute of silence in memory of Brezhnev, Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin made his way to the podium. "Comrade Deputies," he began as a hush came over the huge hall, "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... proposes the election of General Secretary Comrade Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet." The Deputies burst into perfunctory applause. Onlookers in the gallery turned to each other to make sure they had heard the word "Presidium" rather than "presidency." They had. Andropov had been nominated...
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...