Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter how hot a goalie can get during the playoffs, if a team can't score, its chances of winning are as good as a bunch of Cornellians deciding to remain tactfully quiet during a hockey game at Lynah Rink...
...time is about all they have to offer each other. The Actress (Jacqueline Sloan) tries to take advantage of a quiet moment alone with the Professor (Shawn Hainsworth). She desperately tries to seduce him. But onto the scene arrives the Actress's husband, the Ballplayer (Chris Cabot) to prevent the affair from ever happening. The script gives the illusion of suspense but never resolves the dissonance it creates. More questions seem to be asked than answered in this fragmented plot...
...introspective Professor, Hainsworth passively listens to the problems of the other characters. He brings impish charm to his character. But Hainsworth has little to work with. Like the guru that he is, he just sits on his bed waiting for other people to come and interrupt his quiet existence...
...rare mistake was behind him, and he was talking of his admiration for the great Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, against whom he expects to race in the slalom and giant slalom this week. From Stenmark, he said, "I learned that when you want to make power, you must be quiet. Then you explode." But, he added ruefully, "you cannot go over your limit...
...they wonder, from an economic system that is eroding their living standards? Or a health system that promises at least partial care for the elderly but guarantees nothing for families with sick children? Or a political system that allows communities to outlaw residents under 19 to ensure peace and quiet -- and reduce school taxes at the same time? Or a Social Security system that seems to assure only that the young will never draw out anything like the amount they are required to pay in? "I don't have a grudge against older people collecting Social Security because the Government...