Word: muted
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...features an empty room similar to a shot of the court room. No connection can be made out of that. Scenes are spliced together with the same indiscriminate flair for incongruities for incongruity's sake. One should see this film without expecting any deep probes; it is a disturbingly mute film. Its weaknesses are similar to the weaknesses of the killers themselves: It has a unique, if not overwhelming, personality...
...southward in such numbers that there are now 67,000 below the DMZ-more than half the Communists' main force and doing far more than half of the enemy's fighting in South Viet Nam. Initially, the allies knew very little about their new antagonists beyond the mute evidence on the battlefields. Today a great deal is known, painstakingly pieced together from interrogations of the 1,700 NVA soldiers captured and the 250 who have defected over the past two years, and augmented by the tons of Communist documents unearthed since la Drang. With that knowledge...
...ends its air raids and naval bombardment north of the 17th parallel. Trinh's assurance--the first Hanoi has ever given publicly--stirred the sudden and exhilarating hope that a major obstacle on the road to peace had been swept away. Only three months previously, President Johnson appeared to mute his earlier--and ill-advised--demand that the North Vietnamese de-escalate their military activities in exchange for the bombing halt required to initiate talks. In a September 30 speech at San Antonio, Johnson said he only "assumed" the North Vietnamese would not "take advantage" of a respite from...
...plays Joan. She must make the audience believe in the other characters' phenomenal belief in her. This, Diana Sands fails to do. She stresses Joan the outward realist and scants Joan the inner mystic. Her voice can be heard, and a trifle too stridently, but her "voices" are mute...
...after day, the clutter grew worse, mute testimony to the voluminous reports filed by TIME correspondents and Researcher Betty Suyker. During one of his rare escapes from the expanding mass of material he was trying to reduce to cover-story length, Kanfer spent a long, valuable hour walking around Central Park with Producer-Star Warren Beatty...