Word: mutes
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Along empty, unlit streets in the gathering gloom, sleighs rasp over the ice. They carry branches lopped off trees that now stand like amputees in mute supplication to the heavens. Soon this last source of fuel for the city's l.5 million hungry, freezing residents will be gone, and the suffering will intensify...
Thanks to that little button on the ever present remote control, the one that cuts off television sound during commercials, a comforting -- even empowering -- new verb has sprouted throughout the land: to mute. Typical usage, describing how you cut off a boring conversation: "I muted...
...easier to become mute and complacent, shying away from responsibilities to the broader ethnic community, the neglected populations of Asian-Americans in this country who are economically underprivileged and who do not have a shot at success because of language barriers and prejudice...
...machine is programmed exactly right, any one of a host of pitfalls can scuttle the enterprise. Frustrated VCR users can recite them through gritted teeth: forgetting to put in a cassette; failing to turn on the timer or (on some machines) switch off the VCR; accidentally leaving on the mute button; coming home to discover that a presidential press conference has put the whole evening's schedule out of whack...
With his expressive eyebrows and resonant voice, J.C. Wolfgang Murad deftly guides the cast through his chosen plot. As his narrative partner, Emily Gardiner, a graceful, adorable Mute, complements his charismatic stage presence. Silber and McDonell effectively direct these characters to make full use of the performance area...