Word: quieter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...happened without exception. Because of the shape of my life, many of the women I talked to that day were journalists. They were all a little quieter. She had been the most powerful woman in newspapers for so long—and she had started on that road by chance. But she became great in her role by dint of will and force of personality...
...Amanda says in Noel Coward's Private Lives, "Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is.") All the same, American culture moves so readily to legitimize the latest enthusiasms of mass taste--snowboarding! game shows! Irish step dancing!--that it always seems in danger of overwhelming art that demands quieter attention. The devilishly effective machinery of American pop culture turns our attention constantly to whatever is loud, vivid, swaggering...
Those with an appetite for more (or maybe less) can also try the quieter Healing Child (also called the Health Oasis) at Ban Bo on the north side of Samui. Here the managers are pushing back the frontiers of science. "The feeling of hunger is emotionally rather than physically based," they claim, adding that anyone feeling woozy during a fast is merely suffering "an illusion of the mind." Hunger moves in cycles, they say. Pangs return after 4 hours, then 9, 18, 36, three days, one week, two weeks, three weeks and finally six weeks. For some, the treatments...
...cannot fathom the choices made by Veronica (Roni) Bowers--a woman who raised her children on a houseboat on the Amazon and preached the gospel to people who have never seen a light bulb. Behind the battery of urgent questions about the tragic downing of the missionary plane are quieter ones about the people who died...
...First you experience the Emperor wowing hundreds of the frenzied Mac faithful with his latest chunk of totemic technology. Then attendants sit and chat with you in holding rooms, each room progressively larger and quieter than the last, the whole process subtly recalling of the huge body of history and myth surrounding this man (the co-creator of the first PC; the owner of the infamous reality distortion field that infects all bystanders in a 100ft. radius with his evangelical zeal; the notoriously arrogant hard-ass as played by Noah Wylie in the TNT special "Pirates of Silicon Valley...