Word: quieted
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...back seat. When the trip is over, the now drooling kids are ushered into a cabin/beach house where a Playstation is warming up. Years later, when the kids are 22 and serving time for armed robbery, parents will shake their heads sadly and say, "They were always so quiet. Never heard a peep out of them...
Jeffords' decision was his disgrace. This "stern, quiet man" betrayed his party and deliberately upset the power structure for his own aggrandizement and vindictiveness. DOROTHY PERMENTER Jacksonville...
...Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten - and nearly killed - but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to pictorial and finally symbolic representation. He teaches about integers by leading students on a tour of civil rights monuments. The kids then draw pictures of the journey and create number lines in which each stop represents an integer, and use them to add and subtract positive and negative numbers...
...Wrong Places," has a quiet contemplation about it that comes as much from the actions of the story as from the portrayal of those actions. A typical moment goes like this: in the midst of Nathan explaining his mother's deterioration Richard bends over, saying, "Nathan..." Grabbing a blob in the grass, he continues saying, "...you dropped a sock." Nathan, with laundry basket in hand, takes the sock and says, "Thanks." This seemingly pointless, interfering sequence could be mistaken for a waste of three panels. But really it's a gift; an act of artistic generosity...
...very complex, it's very hard to tell who's capable of what. One woman might be screaming "I'm going to kill my children," and she'd be the most stable of the bunch because she's actually venting. And then the quiet one who keeps things bottled up will commit some terrible crime. After someone does something like this, it's very standard to hear friends and neighbors of the accused say, "Oh, she was such a quiet person. I can't believe she did this." That's because everything was percolating inside...