Word: muted
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...presidents framed the proceedings in a mute, touching way. George Bush the Elder acted the proud, mellow father in a non-speaking part. Ronald Reagan could not come to Philadelphia, for melancholy reasons. Gerald Ford had a stroke in the midst of the convention. Extinct volcanoes. One generation passeth away. George and Laura Bush made much of their daughters' going off to college, which is, so to speak, where the boomers came in and the movie began. So the generational cycle is, belatedly but convincingly, accomplished...
...takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script. In the Bruckheimer tradition, Memphis assembles a team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn't do it for the money...
Nathan Glazer, the Harvard sociologist, takes a different, less admiring view. "The mute memorial is all around us," writes Glazer in The Public Interest; and the most successful of them, the Vietnam Memorial, "does not tell us that [those killed] died for their country, or for liberty, or for democracy, or even that they died in vain. It says nothing except that they died." We may speak to the memorials, says Glazer, but they no longer speak clearly to us. Modern art has replaced excessive clarity with none...
Craig, meanwhile, was still working. He had sent his client home to sleep and was still in his office with the TV on mute when around 5 a.m. he saw the rescue unfold on the screen. He jumped to the phone and called Bethesda, waking up Juan Miguel in his room at the residence of Fernando Remirez, head of the Cuban diplomatic mission to the U.S. "Turn on the TV! Turn...
...White. And with that in mind, the logic continues, it doesn't make sense to waste prosecutorial ammunition on the three other cops, who may have amounted to mere accessories. Prosecutors know that treating the other defendants with the same vigor as that used against Carroll could serve to mute the case against their most promising possibility of conviction. And since the district attorney's office is desperate for a conviction - any conviction - out of this case, they may figure that for their purposes, Carroll needs to stand alone...