Word: quietness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where yellow ribbons and a "Friends of Anne Marie" banner now hang. Nicknamed "The Attorney General's Annex Office," O'Friel's is also a place where all five of Fahey's siblings have been employed. It is there that they congregated after Capano's arrest, eating a quiet dinner upstairs. Says O'Friel's owner Kevin Freel: "We sat and talked, and we cried." Fahey, Freel says, left an indelible impression on everyone. "Annie had a quick line and a great laugh, which explains why we miss her so much...
...Hornet, had spent practically every other day "in the box," aviator slang for flights over southern Iraq. The missions were routine, and until recently flyers joked that they would "have a better chance of seeing Jesus than an Iraqi jet." Even the past week, the skies had been quiet. No Iraqi radar had been turned on to "paint" the Nimitz's jets as targets, so far as the pilots could tell. Still, "every time you get in the jet and go over Iraq, you never know if this is going to be the day they're going to take...
...hear about the extraordinary powers of television: the power to amuse and inform the masses, the power to reshape politics, the power to bring together far-flung peoples. These are all significant, but there's another that's even more impressive--the power to keep a four-year-old quiet. All parents know about this miraculous effect, and many take advantage of it without even caring what program is on--Mannix reruns, Cochran and Company, golf--as long as the child sits staring dumbly at the fires of the TV hearth...
...Williams and, of course, the extraordinary Lady Chablis. Spacey was an inspired choice to portray the enigmatic, self-made Southern gentleman. His regal Georgia accent is as delicate as spun honey when he purrs, "Living here pisses off all the right people." And, in vintage Spacey style, that quiet, unflappable composure sets us up for a chilling revelation of his underlying volatility...
...alcohol and pills, Spalding went to Los Angeles at J.F.K.'s request "to make sure she was O.K.--that is, to make sure that Monroe did not speak out of turn." Spalding confirms the trip but emphatically denies that it was in any way intended to keep her quiet. "I don't think I would have gone on that basis," he says...