Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OPENING scenes of 'night, Mother, we observe the quiet, orderly, evening rituals of Jessie Cates the night before she kills herself. As the sun sets over a small, lower-middle-class ranch house in rural America, Jessie (Sissy Spacek) gives her full attention to the monotonous, ennerving tasks of refilling the candy dishes in the living room, taking the clean towels out of the clothes dryer, cancelling the daily paper, setting the electric light timer...
...surface, Tolins is quiet, modest, at first hesitant to discuss his work, as if it just materialized around him one day as he led his "basic Jewish suburban life" in Roslyn, Long Island. He describes himself as having "a knack for finding something to do," and he does seem simply to drift into one interesting project after another, armed with a natural talent for anything and everyting theatrical...
...have a meeting of a preparatory naturein a quiet atmosphere, without press, withoutpressure, to find out where the areas of commonagreement are," he said...
Despite an unspoken code of quiet in the pressbox, the Holy Cross coaches whooped it up every chance they got. They clapped, laughed, and hooted throughout the game. They were studies in contrast to the Harvard coaches in last week's blowout of Columbia; in that game, the Crimson coaching staff was coldly clinical, quietly analyzing the game and the Harvard players...
...move, however, did nothing to quiet the ferocious criticism Reagan had to endure. Conservatives were most vehement in criticizing the President for even thinking about a summit or an arms-control deal while Daniloff awaits trial on a charge that could theoretically be punished by death. Columnist George Will sneered that the Administration had collapsed "like a punctured balloon," and the Washington Times editorially flung the conservatives' supreme insult: "Jimmy Carter, by comparison, was tough and crafty...