Word: muted
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...enact their encounter in parallel recollections. Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another. The moment is brief but perfect -- a lesson by established talent for the new generation...
...questions about Harvard's past are notlikely to be resolved anytime soon, even thoughboth sides agree that the issue of apartheid isessentially mute. Indeed, some alumni say, thedebate that raged so intensely for so many yearsis far from over. Rather, they suggest, it islikely to continue, as the University maps out itsfuture policy toward a new South Africa...
...found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling on the stage of the Apollo Theatre in 1965, Ike walks up to her and kisses her on the cheek. Softly. It's very sweet and utterly false -- pure show biz. It is also a warning: a kiss that could be a kick. Tears rushing down her face...
...1800s, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute Scottish woman, lands on the isolated New Zealand shore with her chatty young daughter (Anna Paquin) and her precious piano; the crated instrument perches on the bleak beach like an exotic bird, or like a coffin holding the happy life Ada left behind. Her mail-order husband (Sam Neill) trades the piano for land with the "town freak," George Baines (Harvey Keitel), and in another plaintive transaction Baines agrees to sell the piano back to Ada, one key at a time, for increasingly audacious amorous favors. This uncorseted Brontean plot runs the gauntlet...
...village cultural scene, writing in a camp publication that "people who never lived here will look at the number of musical events here with wonder and amazement." He never finished the second movement: two minutes and 35 seconds into the lento, the music is cut off in mid-measure, mute testimony to catastrophe, as eloquent as any note ever written...