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...children and youth of America are politically mute, and for this reason have suffered the worst onslaught from the policies of the current Administration Reagan has consistently ignored and misinterpreted the problems of children...
...Saints". Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy Saints stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics or quietly, like suicides, and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone...
...image of a folksy get-together among Jim and Sally and Ivan and Anya, who quickly bridge the ideological divide between their governments. The Soviet leader made fun of Reagan's rhetorical tactics and challenged him to match his "speeches" with "practical deeds." Nonetheless, the Soviets began to mute their rhetoric somewhat. The Soviet press stopped portraying the President as a new Hitler, and leaders backed away from Andropov's statement of Sept. 28 suggesting that the Kremlin had abandoned any hope of doing business with the Reagan Administration...
With The Obscene Bird of Night (1973), his fourth book, Chilean Author José Donoso joined the front ranks of South American fabulists. His sprawling novel not only housed more grotesques than a whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute, baroque retellings of native legends and a riot of inventiveness. Donoso was inevitably mentioned in the same breath with Borges and Marquez as yet another prophetic surrealist bent on reimagining his colorful, tragic continent...
...jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest and a silly grin on its mute face...