Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unite, not divide, and with the exception of our legal holidays it would most likely draw out a larger portion of the American populous than any other day on the calendar. Black, white, male, female. All divisions would become mute if only for 24 hours as workers joined hands against the one fissure with which all must cope, the gap that separates worker from capitalist. Sovietism is dead; this Thursday, celebrate this May Day without fear. Your barbecues and beer will still be there in September...
...roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced black diamonds...
...gift for setting up these situations which illustrate visually the key themes of the film. Gregoire is an outsider at court, but an insider at the Doctor's country mansion. One scene shows him learning to dance in the doctor's parlor with Mathilde, as young Paul, a deaf-mute of the Doctor's household, mimicks them, dancing alone in the field outside. Or the masquerade scene, where Gregoire is barefaced, ringed by the towering wigs and vulture-like beaks of the masqueraders, the sole non-player...
...years. Something had to be done immediately. As a State Department official put it, "We're not talking voluntary checkup here. We're talking emergency-room procedure." Stanching the bleeding proved to be perhaps no better than first aid. In public the principals mustered a modest bonhomie to mute the disappointment. But TIME's look behind the closed-door negotiations, from Jerusalem to Cairo to Washington, found that under the smiles and civility lies the old intransigence...
...Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...