Word: nods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take canoe trips and go out to restaurants and goof around. You don't know what a blast it is to march into a public place, all 31 of us, and take the place over." Brothers perched on desks and leaning on bunk beds look at their feet and nod in agreement, grinning...
John Hurt as Merrick surmounts a monumental challenge. Merrick's mangled and contorted body allows the actor few gestures. Buried under pounds of make-up, Hurt is denied the use of the movie actor's most valuable tool: his face. He can barely nod and shake his head: His drooping mouth hardly moves when he talks: The only way he can express emotion with his face is by blinking. Thus Hurt must make maximum use of his extraordinary voice, giving the performance of a unique theatricality. Hurt's quivering questions, agonized screams, trembling thank-yous, and choked compliments define...
Freshman Week will pass by and you'll meet some people you'll never meet again but will nod at or whisper "hi" to as you walk down Linden St. You'll probably do something stupid--like ask somebody where a building is while you're standing in front of it--but it will all seem wondrously ordered. At opening ceremonies, President Bok will rise from his Harvard chair and give his welcome-to-Harvard speech in a voice that sounds like Zeus; he'll talk about the challenges you face but his message will be upbeat. President Horner will...
...side of Harvard, a place where men and women with great minds are free to train other men and women with potentially great minds. And when your professor in a class of 200 calls out your name and asks if you really understand what's going on, and you nod and mutter something inconsequential, you'll know why you stayed up the night before to write his paper...
...sorts of hold-outs who survive. He opens with "Disco Apocalypse," a "self-mocking parody" and skeptical glance backward at "Before the Deluge," in which the dreamers and fools with the energy of the innocent struggle to deliver Mother Earth from the hands of her defilers. With this "affectionate nod to disco." Browne turns to those caught in the sounds and sights of the avenue: Hearts beating to a disco drummer, they wait for the end of the world while the juke box and the radio play...