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Through such tactics, Park has managed to mute dissent within Korea, though an assassin's bullet intended for him killed his wife last summer. But outside the country, support for him has shrunk. Two congressional committees want to slash U.S. military aid to Korea almost in half, to about $80 million for this fiscal year...
...1960s and even tried going straight, as the producer of Rosemary's Baby. Shanks, however, is a return to true form. It is awful. There are no technical stunts in the movie, but there is one rather flabby device: the hero, a puppeteer named Malcolm Shanks, is a mute. Since he is played by Marcel Marceau, he is also a mime and really requires no words. The plot, which is crusted with mold, involves a fantasy in which Shanks dreams of a spooky old house (not the one on Haunted Hill, however), a nice old mad scientist...
...biggest coup was landing Liddy's 5,500-word article, written in a Washington jail cell last July. Liddy has been the mum man of Watergate, responding only with silence to prosecutors, judges and journalists alike for over two years. He was so determined to remain mute that when he attended a writing course in prison, he insisted that his work not be published...
Hello, Ethel. Most patrons of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital Gift Shop do a double take when the auburn-haired saleslady hands them their change. Pressed, she admits, "Yes, I'm Ethel Merman." Keeping her Klaxon mute, Ethel does not even hum as she bustles about the shop, straightening rows of candy bars and selling cookies. But, say admiring fellow workers, "she's definitely improved sales." Enlisting as a volunteer when her mother was hospitalized at Roosevelt eleven months ago, Ethel was first a patients' escort, then joined the gift shop. Now she comes in at least...
...also killed, and his daughter Miriam, 5, wounded. His wife Fortuna, seven months pregnant, tried to flee the intruders, but was machine-gunned. The only one in the family not killed or wounded was 16-month-old Yitzhak Cohen. He never attracted attention by crying; he is a deaf-mute...