Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fugui returns to his liberated village. As he reaches the entrance he sees Jiazhen and Fengxia delivering water door to door. Soon Fugui learns of his mother's death and that Fenxia, after a serious illness, is now mute. As always, life goes...
...which in its harshness made even a few supporters squeamish. The case for NAFTA has always focused on the long term: that freer trade would slowly boost prosperity on both sides of the border, notwithstanding acute growing pains; and that by making Mexicans less threatening neighbors, it would eventually mute the raw nativism that is surfacing in California and elsewhere. That case looks at least as strong today as a year...
...denies; he clarifies. Every word, every musing, every hyperbolic expression is recorded and decoded. Newt Gingrich, the incoming House speaker, has dominated the debate as few politicians ever do. Even Bill Clinton, still conflicted about What It All Means a month after the Republicans' midterm rout, seems almost mute before Newt...
...grolle nicht, as the musical foundation of the opera to illustrate the eponymous victim's visual agnosia: unable to synthesize visual images, the man relied on Schumann's music to help him apprehend the world. In The Piano, Scottish folk tunes suffused the keyboard reveries that gave the mute heroine Ada her soaringly distinctive if wildly anachronistic voice: the result was a blend of rigorous Minimalism, frank Romanticism and the listener-friendly ecstasies of New Age music...
...Gable. What's more, Dalton is not given resonant lines like the movie's "All we've got is cotton and slaves and arrogance." Instead he is obliged to say things like "You're trying to pass yourself off as a lady -- you couldn't fool a blind deaf-mute...