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Craig, meanwhile, was still working. He had sent his client home to sleep and was still in his office with the TV on mute when around 5 a.m. he saw the rescue unfold on the screen. He jumped to the phone and called Bethesda, waking up Juan Miguel in his room at the residence of Fernando Remirez, head of the Cuban diplomatic mission to the U.S. "Turn on the TV! Turn...
...White. And with that in mind, the logic continues, it doesn't make sense to waste prosecutorial ammunition on the three other cops, who may have amounted to mere accessories. Prosecutors know that treating the other defendants with the same vigor as that used against Carroll could serve to mute the case against their most promising possibility of conviction. And since the district attorney's office is desperate for a conviction - any conviction - out of this case, they may figure that for their purposes, Carroll needs to stand alone...
...inspire students to share their scholarly excitement, they have crushed great learning into mediocre bits, lest students choke on it. They have reduced great revelation to mere relevance. In the process, the great thinkers who might otherwise inspire men and women to greatness, become cold marble busts sitting mute while scores graduate without their sage teachings...
...Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin writes that the body of the filmed subject "loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence. The projector will play with his shadow before the public." Shimon Attie's work, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, is premised on such shadowplay, but with profoundly moving results...
...original founders, Cheyney Thompson, who migrated there recently. Thompson's "1839," a series of acrylic paintings of woodbeam-and-brick cross-sections on transparent organza, exposes infrastructural delicacy. Also with Nathan Carter, Daniel Lefcourt, Tim Seiber and Bettina Sellman, whose installation, "the absence of dreaming," encases mute forms in satin...