Word: muted
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...Moynihan is up there in my pantheon of great characters, along with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, two of the four Presidents for whom he worked. I encountered him inside the mournful White House the night of John Kennedy's assassination. He stood mute, tears coursing down his cheeks. Then he filched a picture of J.F.K. and joyfully told the world of his loving larceny. He held that picture to his heart the rest of his life. Once in Nixon's White House I listened to Moynihan expound on Schumpeterian economics while the snout of an opened champagne bottle peeked...
...this detracted from the mind-blowing show on a whole. The decision not to play older material has been a strong stance for the band to take, but they managed to sell the new album before it even hits the stores, a release slated for next February on Mute Records. As those who have heard it debut on the road know, there will be no sophomore slump for the Liars, and their concerts are among the most engaging and raucous in the rock underground today. The Boston show last week was no exception...
Ziegler has spent the last few months working with literary agent Esmond Harmsworth on three drafts of a first novel. She says she based its plot —which centers around the disappearance of its narrator’s mute sister—on a real-life murder trial in her home state...
...harmed a 24-year relationship is absurd," Shapiro says. He was also instrumental in hiring Rush Limbaugh for ESPN's Sunday-morning NFL pregame show. But when the conservative talk-radio host made his racially charged comments about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Shapiro was, at least initially, uncharacteristically mute. In the end, he helped force Limbaugh out. "Put as much blame as you want on me," Shapiro says...
...Durst was living in Galveston under the identity of a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner. "Dorothy" wore cargo pants and a blond wig. In Galveston, Durst met Black, 71, who lived across the hall and, according to Durst's testimony, became his "best friend." On Sept. 28, 2001, Durst returned to his rental to find Black there watching television. A scuffle ensued, Durst's pistol went off, and Black is believed to have died of head trauma...