Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...been in Caxias 21 years, but about 50 were among a group of influential leftists that had been locked up only one week before in the government's frenzied attempt to quash dissent. One ugly rumor about Caxias was confirmed when liberating soldiers discovered a torture building, mute evidence that will no doubt back up the testimony of the prisoners who visited it. "Every night we would hear the trucks rumbling past our windows, taking prisoners to the torture building," said the wife of one prison worker. "Then we would hear them come back, and we would...
...turn of a key, the gentle pressure of a foot, a twist of the steering wheel and the occasional injection of vital fluids. Those freewheeling days, alas, have passed. As a result of the nation's commendable concern with driver safety, cars are no longer the mute mistresses of yore but have become instead the harridans of the highways, yowling at passengers and refusing orders until they are properly buckled...
Ingmar Bergman's Persona is generally accounted a masterpiece of a movie, but since it evidently relies pretty thoroughly on purely cinematic techniques--it's about two women, one a famous actress who's become deaf and mute, who look very much alike--it's hard to imagine how Sarah Stearns adapted it for the stage. Evidently she has, though. Opens tonight through Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb...