Word: muted
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...case you?re wondering, Jane is not the Hollywood actress who married and divorced Ronald Reagan and won an Oscar for playing a deaf-mute. That was Jane Wyman. Our Jane was married to the same man, businessman Edgar Ward, until his death in 2000, one day short of their 65th wedding anniversary. Her career spanned just about that length, from Broadway in the early '30s to a last TV movie role in 1996. The year before our first dinner, she had played Mr. Spock?s human mother in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and she had a recurring...
...Morocco a little peasant boy aims a rifle, newly acquired by his father, at a tourist bus and grievously wounds a woman dozing by one of its windows. In Tokyo an adolescent girl, puzzled and angry over her mother's suicide (and a deaf-mute as well), bedevils her father and at the same time blatantly asserts her confused but flaming sexual needs. In San Diego a Mexican woman tends two Anglo children she deeply loves while their parents are on holiday, but when her own son needs her, she puts her charges in jeopardy. Unable to find someone...
...October—decidedly a month of neutrality in the collegiate rowing world, when distance is measured in miles and productivity is measured in months, not meters. Any talk of potential springtime achievements is quickly silenced by the impending winter, one that promises to mute all IRA speculation until the warmer days of early March begin to thaw the Charles. So it is that in October, the past often does the talking. But the Harvard varsity lightweights, left without IRA gold medals for three consecutive years, have found little solace in recollection.In Newell Boathouse, the current Crimson varsity lightweights with...
...overstated. Most Sudanese do not see the Darfuri conflict as a sectarian war, a view supported by the one million Muslims who live in Darfur but often oppose the Janjaweed. Moreover, the Arab League has hinted that it may support a UN force, a decision that would surely mute most Arab criticisms. The largest impediment to action is political will. China, Russia, and India, all importing Sudanese oil and investing in the country’s booming economy (Sudan’s GDP grew by 14 percent last year), are loath to ruffle the Khartoum government’s feathers...
...doctors are invited to attend. In sharp contrast to the joyful, noise of the usual delivery room, there are also few experiences as dreaded by physicians as a quiet delivery room. Mothers whose conditions are precarious may require emergency C-sections and general anesthesia which renders them mute and requires their family members to stay in the waiting room. The lungs of very premature babies may be too undeveloped to make a cry. Rarely, when the condition of a mother or baby is dire, nurses and doctors may used hushed tones. And occasionally, a baby may look "funny...