Word: muted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange, capricious, almost moronic. What she is looking for, as she darts about in her Jaguar or flits from London to Chicago or Paris, is a usable identity and some emotional connections. The story concludes melodramatically with a murder, but before that, Eva has adopted a deaf-mute child from a black-market ring and proposed marriage to a youth much younger than...
...Amante Anglaise concerns a particularly squalid and brutal murder in a small provincial town: Claire Lannes kills her middleaged, deaf-mute cousin for no apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Alan Arkin's magnificent performance as the mute in this Hollywood adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel is the only real glimmer of poetry in an otherwise determinedly prosaic film...
...picture of Pueblo crewmen [Oct. 18]: You better brush up on your sign language. According to a deaf-mute employee of the Detroit Free Press, those four men in the picture are spelling out HELP...
...avoid this effect, and thus make the fall of the three all the more dramatic, Senelick is forced to mute the first act. Unfortunately Leantio, the merchant's clerk who loses his high-born bride on account of his stupid, Ben Franklin punctilliousness, has some of his best and most revealing lines in the opening moments: losing them destroys some of the irony so carefully worked into succeeding scenes. But as Kenny McBain went at the role rather gingerly throughout all of last night's performance, Leantio may be better served when he settles into the part...