Word: mutes
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...feel any pressure to mute your criticism of the government? Before, I was just assistant bishop, but now I'm the bishop, so maybe I have to be a little more indirect...
...Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python, strange, vaguely metaphorical characters pop in and out. Pudgy, bowler-hatted men regularly visit the writer to collect anything that he loves, giving them over to a mad doctor who dissects the objects, looking for their soul. The painter receives a visit from a mute gallery owner who keeps word-cards in his pocket and forms malapropisms like, "Oh, sheep I've lost all my sobbing colours...
...what is becoming a political war over the economy, Bush's army is filled with pacifists. His chief economist, Larry Lindsey, is a laissez-faire purist who views most government regulation of the marketplace as futile, even harmful. Bush's Veep is mute in public and argues vehemently inside the White House against any overreaction to the recent series of corporate scandals. The Secretary of the Treasury, the gaffe-a-minute Paul O'Neill, was off in Ukraine last week. No matter. Wall Street has not found any solace in O'Neill, a former CEO without a gut feel...
...into the heart of folks in the most unexpected places?like the host countries, where soccer is hardly the prevailing pasttime. In the first half of Japan's initial match against Belgium, which resulted in a draw, many of the 55,256-strong, blue-clad home crowd sat strangely mute. But when Takayuki Suzuki scored Japan's first goal of World Cup 2002, Saitama Stadium erupted in a frenzy of pride. And once the Japanese got the hang of it, they could not be stopped. The night their team defeated Russia, Kyoko Ebata, 28, a Tokyo artist, was out with...
...into the heart of folks in the most unexpected places - like the host countries, where soccer is hardly the prevailing pasttime. In the first half of Japan's initial match against Belgium, which resulted in a draw, many of the 55,256-strong, blue-clad home crowd sat strangely mute. But when Takayuki Suzuki scored Japan's first goal of World Cup 2002, Saitama Stadium erupted in a frenzy of pride. And once the Japanese got the hang of it, they could not be stopped. The night their team defeated Russia, Kyoko Ebata, 28, a Tokyo artist, was out with...