Word: muted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...agony, and said to me, 'Let's go, come, come, it is over ... '" he wrote in his autobiography. Instead, the French fireman, then 19, was wrenched back to life again and again by doctors, machines and good intentions. After nine months in a coma and 15 more as a mute, nearly blind quadriplegic (he wrote his memoir by using small movements of one thumb), Humbert pleaded with his mother - and President Jacques Chirac - to help him die. On Sept. 26, he got his wish, and France exhaled a sad sigh of relief. Now the nation is again holding its breath...
...same goes for Cornell. That university has promoted and supported its hockey program in a manner that the rest of the Ivy League does not, and it is hardly asking students to stand mute during the games. They just want them to change one word. That?...
...present their denunciations are normally diluted with words citing the cause behind terrorist activities, conveying a message of vague justification. Surely there are many Islamic scholars and clerics who do not believe that any part of the Koran preaches the killing of innocents, but they choose to be mute. Sujit Chakravarty Calcutta...
...same with Bontecou, who produced some of the gravest, most tough-minded and even belligerent art of the 1960s. Three-dimensional wall pieces, they were constructed by attaching strips of rough canvas to welded metal frameworks, using bristling threads of thin wire. Always featuring one or more mute, sinister holes, the wall pieces conflated all kinds of mysteries and anxieties--about the human body, the primal instincts, the state of the world, the universe itself--into enigmas that shoot forward like field cannons. You don't just stand in front of something like Untitled from 1966. You bob and weave...
...Hong Kong, Taiwan or anywhere." Indeed, in his eclectic 10-year career, Kaneshiro?who speaks five languages and has made films in four countries?has trained his chameleon-like talents on a remarkable array of characters. In Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels, he played a mute who rode the carcass of a pig like a cowboy. He made love to an HIV-infected teen in the blockbuster Japanese TV miniseries God Please Give Me More Time. In Returner, he played an orphaned assassin-for-hire, and he was a bowling-addicted stockbroker in another Japanese...