Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MEDFORD--Shhh, be quiet...
...example. Said Secretary Shultz to reporters flying back with him from a European trip: "We are never going to get anywhere doing things that way. We will get somewhere in our relationship with the Soviets when we are able to have some discussions that are relatively direct and quiet...
...staterooms, quilted leather ceilings, a steam room, a screening room, 14 bathrooms, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, two racing boats and, oh yes, a helicopter? (No peeking at the picture.) The answer, from the ever grand Malcolm Forbes, is a brand-new yacht he discreetly describes as "dramatically restrained, in quiet taste, nothing opulent." At least not for someone who collects million-dollar Faberge eggs for fun. Last week 107 guests, including Secretary of State George Shultz and Chief Justice Warren Burger, came aboard to admire the $5 million, 151-ft. three-decker at the Forbes magazine tycoon's annual boat...
...better yet, it runs up against a brick wall: how can the quiet rationality of a policy investigation make sense of police who machine gun like gangsters, a city that drops a bomb on itself, firemen who start fires and watch them burn? The whole thing is a demonic inversion...
...Brenneman delivers perhaps the finest performance as the narrator Nelly Dean, another servant at Wuthering Heights. Her Rickie Lee Jones lip-synchs are convincing, almost soulful, and she anchors the loosely constructed production with a quiet but firm presence...