Word: mutedness
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Mathias were classmates at law school, Brewster was an usher at Mathias' wedding, and Mathias is godfather to one of Brewster's children. Both are liberals; both are for civil rights in a state that still clings to many Old South attitudes. But Brewster is relatively tough on...
Still, what Ruggles has produced is powerful, direct, dense, thoroughly modern American music. In the 1920s and 1930s, when he wrote most of it, he was considered to be every bit as original and daring as his composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie...
As in his The Taming of the Shrew, starring the Burtons, Zeffirelli dazzles the eye with a virtuoso use of color. His camera is a Renaissance palette. Courtiers stride by in the muted gold and crimsons of Piero della Francesca; cobblestones and horsemen diminish into the serene infinities of Uccello...
RACHEL, RACHEL. Puzzled by the present, plagued by the past, a 35-year-old schoolteacher struggles to break out of her bleak existence in this muted film di rected by Paul Newman. As Rachel, Joanne Woodward (Mrs. Newman) brings transcendent strength to her role and lifts the film to classic...
Where are the guards? Typically, the report finds, each cell block has only one guard who, from his station, "can see into none of the open cells and only 30% of the total area of the dormitory." Since cell doors are often unlocked and prisoners are allowed to roam from...