Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen leaving a nearby tavern with Lang, a Chicago dock worker, and a speedy investigation turned up bloodstained clothing in his apartment. Lang's alibi? He had none. But then he could not talk. Nor could he hear, read, write or use sign language. Lang was a deaf-mute who communicated solely by gestures and rough drawings. Because of this severe disability, he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and placed in a state psychiatric hospital. Doubting his guilt, the deaf-mute's lawyer pressed for a trial, which the Illinois Supreme Court finally ordered...
...years ago, nothing but insults have been exchanged by Santiago and Moscow. So when Strongman Pinochet ostentatiously offered to give the Kremlin his country's top Communist prisoner in exchange for a jailed Russian writer last month, his proposal was widely dismissed as a futile gesture designed to mute critics of his oppressive regime. Last week the improbable bargain was consummated. In exchange for the release of Chilean Communist Party Chief Luis Corvalán, 60, the Kremlin freed Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, 33, who was serving a seven-year sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation...
Thus parrying, sweet Sin stands mute, the while...
...Shea is also good as King Sextimus, the mute sex-fiend, hamming up his mime as much as possible. His gestures tend to get repetitive, but again the plot, which has him chasing courtiers around the stage every few minutes, is more at fault than the actor. Shea peaks in a number where he attempts to explain the facts of life to his son, the erstwhile bridegroom...
...Carter panelists was still not sure that Carter was the right man for the job. "We don't have the best man; we have the better man," said Truck Driver William Parker of Rocky Mount, N.C. The second debate helped to mute the criticism that Carter tends to overpromise and to be fuzzy on the issues (50% agreed with these charges in TIME'S September report, only 33% after the second debate). Still, 3 out of 5 panelists were worried that he might increase spending at the taxpayer's expense. One out of 2 panelists agreed strongly...