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Dumbstruck, the crowd stood mute. Afterward, Kemp slumped in a folding chair. For the first time in 25 years, I saw an incredible force depressed. "This isn't my party anymore," he brooded. "You saw it. They rejected the message. Without compassion, the party will have no future. And I won't either...
...damage it eventually does to innocents like Sam and Pilar when they are not let in on the secrets it shrouds. Above all, he wants us to understand that when we deny history we grant it a more disruptive power. Sayles is a meditative storyteller, with a tendency to mute melodrama rather than letting it wail. But he is also one of the few filmmakers still ferreting out the strangeness and anxiety hidden beneath our poses of ordinariness...
Twist any paleontologist's arm and you'll eventually elicit a fantasy about meeting long-extinct animals in the flesh. That's understandable enough, for fossil bones and teeth are frustratingly mute about so many of the things that made them the living organisms they once were. This is never more true than with the fossils of early hominids. But few paleoanthropologists have actually had the nerve to go public with their most imaginative musings, at least partly because they are so conscious of the gulf between what can and cannot reliably be said...
...flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch will then save Wallace in a breathless climax whose brio and ingenuity shame any live-action thriller...
...called up a friend to get his advice," Lee says. "He put me on a three-way line on mute and called one of the VPs of his company. He asked the VP what he thought of all the companies I was thinking about and so I got to hear a very objective, detached opinion...