Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitterness deepened when British troops killed two men, one of them a deaf mute: the army said he had been waving a pistol, while Catholic bystanders claimed he was unarmed. Ulster's Catholics were also angered because the internment without trial had not applied equally to extremists on the other side; none of the 232 still held were Protestant. Elaborate rumors of their mistreatment circulated through Northern Ireland's six counties, leading William Cardinal Conway, Catholic Primate of All Ireland, to charge that "there is prima-facie evidence that entirely innocent men are being subjected to humiliating...
This summer the coffee grounds have been telling a different tale. Since January, freight rates have dropped to their lowest levels in 14 years, sending many shipowners scrambling just to keep even with loan payments on their vessels. Off Piraeus, 250 merchant ships lie at anchor, mute testimony to the inability of their owners to find cargoes. Similar scenes of placid but unintended idleness can be found at anchorages throughout Europe...
...like a stiletto from the next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
...Egypt, Syria and Libya. The union has been coolly received by Egyptians, who recall how a similar federation with Syria dissolved rancorously a decade ago. Sadat is not believed to be much more enthusiastic; but he agreed to join in order to put pressure on Israel and to mute criticism of his diplomatic initiatives toward the Israelis...
...look at an image like Campbell's Soup Can, 1965, is not to see it through Warhol's eyes-he has eliminated all idiosyncrasies. There is no contagion of personality. What remains is the flat, mute face of an actuality presented as meaning nothing beyond itself. When Warhol's series of cans, dollar bills, stickers and movie stars appeared in the early and middle '60s, they were thought ironic, an indictment of consumer culture; and a Goyaesque mordancy was attributed to his silk-screen portraits. Because it was deemed improper for an artist...