Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the wrestling robot attacked, we removed the robotic votes and reposted the tallies with Mr. Foley no longer in the top 20. All was quiet for several weeks until a large web site devoted to the grapplin' game caught wind of the story and whipped legions of loyal fans into a frenzy by misquoting a TIME spokesman as saying that we had removed Foley because "he had made no significant contribution to society." Needless to say, this enraged wrestlemaniacs the world over, and thousands of angry e-mails flooded in from all over the country. "Time SUCKS!, Foley ROCKS...
...replies, "I needed a strong and incredibly subtle actor for that. It's not an attractive part--men don't like to play a man who can't give his wife an orgasm. I wanted him to emerge with a dignity that is surprising." His instincts were right: the quiet pain and pride of Rea's performance is one of the high points of the film...
...center of Yeremin's production simply cannot hold. Yeremin turns the speeches Chekov meant his characters to address to one another into performance pieces directed at the audience, turns moments of quiet, embarrassed emotional confessions into visual spectacles. Gone is the intimacy that makes Chekov brilliant and the nuance that makes him profound. Ivanov the play is too beautiful a play to be treated so harshly. And Ivanov the production is too gorgeous to engage in such a struggle. Chekov and Yeremin are both brilliant, but their brilliance is not of the sort that can be reconciled...
...interviewer says. Shemmer tries gamely to strike up conversation. "So what do you guys do at Yale for fun?" he asks. "Math club? Chess club?" Another analyst rolls her eyes. "It's the same jokes every year," she complains. Shemmer is unbowed: "Seen any good movies lately?" Murmurs. "Quiet crowd here." Just before the presentation starts he manages to pique their interest with a discussion of video games. When everyone quiets down, Broadview's recruiting director enthusiastically describes the company's mounting prestige and "explosive growth mode." "We're very, very excited," he beams...
...general, being a guest meant that I was allowed to be at Harvard, but only if I was quiet," he stated...