Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downplaying these small moments of mayhem,Ethan Frome pays homage to Wharton, making them all the more powerful. Ethan Frome is not sturm und drang, but rather a tale of mute desperation. Allanbrook Sr. and Hunt should be commended for keeping their opera true to a difficult, complex novella...
...Bunning (R) featured black-and-white mute shots of a screaming Scotty Baesler (D). The ad sparked controversy, with wags saying the images made Baesler look Hitleresque and would backfire. But Bunning is going to the Senate...
...Clinton's first instinct is to find a compromise, hers is to fight. She has the advantage that her conversations with her husband are still legally protected, unlike just about everyone else's. One reason why all the people who usually guide Clinton out of tough spots are mute this time is fear that Starr can haul them before a grand jury to repeat their advice; the other reason is more tender. No one wants to suggest in front of his wife that the President may have been less than faithful and plot a strategy accordingly...
...that was not to last forever. Under pressure from social conservatives, who were angry at the Republicans' mute response to such putative evidence of Clinton's moral turpitude, Gingrich by April had reverted to form, accusing the President of "lawbreaking" and swearing he'd never deliver another speech without mentioning the Clinton investigations. The G.O.P. base loved the return of the old, attack-happy Newt, but Gingrich, who is considering a run for President in 2000, saw his already low personal-approval ratings take a dive. And so, since mid-July, the Speaker has been dismissing questions about impeachment with...
...Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment to which they are also drawn. A girl asks her dyspeptic beau, "Will you trust me?" and he says...