Word: mumness
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There's talk of crashing blimps, but both he and his investors are mum on further details, beyond hints that the ill-fated blimp is only one part of a much larger stunt...
...fascination with Japan's perceived strangeness stretches from the beginning of films - when actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Hollywood stars - to today. In the new Brit comedy Bridget Jones's Diary the heroine's mum blithely describes the Japanese as a "very cruel race." And if you think the Japanese cannot portray themselves as very cruel, check out Teruo Ishii's Joy of Torture films. In these two gore classics from the '60s, victims of feudal lords are roasted, splayed, beheaded, crucified and otherwise inconvenienced. These are not the only examples of cinematic exploitation and self-criticism...
...Once the generals had Jiang's ear, though, they bent it hard. It's significant that after keeping mum for two days, Jiang opened with a demand to end surveillance flights; only a day later did he call for an apology. "Ending spy flights is what the military wants, so Jiang demanded it first," explains a former editor for the Communist Party's mouthpiece, the People's Daily...
Once the generals had Jiang's ear, though, they bent it hard. It's significant that after keeping mum for two days, Jiang opened with a demand to end surveillance flights; only a day later did he call for an apology. "Ending spy flights is what the military wants, so Jiang demanded it first," explains a former editor for the Communist Party's mouthpiece, the People's Daily...
...always think reading can start among the family by the dad or the mum not actually reading to them but telling them stories. That's where it will start. You can't just come up one day and stuff a book in their hand, and say, "Read that...