Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists and priests who come to treat her. Before the guests at her mother's dinner party she urinates...
...pond on their country property. Leaving their surviving son in school, the Baxters depart for Venice, where John is restoring a 16th century church. The movie gives a compelling sense of the city not as a romantic tourist spot, but as a cold, purgatorial place, a labyrinth full of mute threat. It is, as one character describes it, "like a city in aspic at a dinner party where all the guests are dead and gone...
...necessary and incumbent labor force or as the passive victims of prevailing policy. Instead, they are engaged in exploring the varied and manifold historical responses of the people at the bottom to their own condition, the political acts and cultural expressions of the "losers" in history. Escaping the mute parochialism and indifference of many historians, they realize that causes which they portray and analyze that were lost in Europe and in the United States may yet be won in Latin America, Africa or Asia. The most valuable chapters in The Seduction of the Spirit stand as one of the first...
Port Said is a ghost town. The yellow and whitewashed buildings are mute. The Sheherazade nightclub, the new Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened...
...arguments have been weakened. But Sapir personally seems to have gained in prestige, partly because of his successful fund-raising campaign in the U.S. ($1 billion) and partly because the Israeli economy continued to function through the war without major dislocation. Nonetheless, he may well find it necessary to mute his dovish instincts within a post-election Cabinet that will probably be facing a bigger Likud-led hawkish opposition in the Knesset...