Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make waves. That means you not only keep your nose clean, but you don't cause a ruckus about what other people are doing. People around here will accept just about anything before they get upset. The important thing is to make sure things stay quiet and calm. No one in Muncie ever does anything drastic...
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: "Yeah, I guess it would have to be last year when we were looking at Harvard films. I'm a little deaf in one ear, see, so when Coach Blackman starts talking about the Restic "Multisex" offense, I start giggling, you know, sort of quiet like. And then coach Blackman, he says, 'OK, Elmer, what's the joke? If it's so funny, why don't you share it WITH THE WHOLE TEAM?' So I go, 'Heh, heh, the multisex, what does that mean--some of the the guys wear PANTIES on the field or something...
...more self-serving argument has perhaps never been made by an American earning millions off the slave-wage labor of black South African gold miners. But upon closer examination, one finds it was not even simply a matter of "make your money and keep quiet" for Charlie Engelhard. More than any other American, Charles Engelhard gave direct political support to the Nationalist government. Engelhard sat on the boards of Witwatersrand Native Labor Association and Native Recruiting Agency, two South African government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in the mines...
...since M*A*S*H* was released. Altman's movies are subversive--not because they tell us what to think, but because they make it impossible for us to remain settled in our comfortable old beliefs. They expose the tangled, jury-rigged pulleys and levers that operated behind the quiet, smooth facades of the old Hollywood myth machines. The exposed machines still work, but the illusion of smooth magic has disappeared; their contrivedness is obvious...
Into this quiet, ordinary situation Pym works the subtlest of nuances, endowing her characters with quiet dignity and endearing quirks. Norman is sarcastic, but he always stops just short of abrasion. Edwin, a large, docile widower, is so bland as to be almost invisible; he fills his mouth with candies and his hours with a ceaseless round of churchgoing...