Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point last year hit annual rates as high as 1,260%. That means the problem of the Palestinians on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been shoved even further onto the back burner: an act of faith is required to believe that it will remain quiet...
...their second campaign was 'He kept us out of war.' But (later) we realized that maybe we got in that war because that policy made the enemy think they could do anything and Wilson wouldn't fight . . . I think Ike brought about the armistice in Korea with a quiet little leak that we just might consider a change in weaponry, meaning we might loose that thing we had loosed once before (an atom bomb). Almost overnight we went to an armistice table...
...rest of it is a bore. I am sure sex was designed for the pleasure of males." From Washington came the outburst: "Yes, yes, a million times yes! I would love to be spoken to tenderly. My boyfriend never says a word. If I say anything he says, 'Be quiet. You're spoiling things...
Reality has a way of turning heroism to tragedy, even pathos. The real gunman is Bernhard Goetz, electronic whiz and loner. His was "a life of quiet desperation," concluded the New York Post. (It should know. It put 13 reporters on the story.) He has been described as moody and unstable. He certainly was frightened. He told his sister after the shooting that he did it out of fear. "A scared individual, vulnerable and fragile," a neighbor called him. When the movie is made, Goetz will be played not by Charles Bronson but by Donald Pleasence. Or better, by Anthony...
...material they are performing. Martin becomes a slightly befuddled middle-aged Englishman, the most the role permits. Harris creates a magnificent portrait of a woman slowly eroding from half-hidden anguish whenever Peter and Helen Kroger (Colin Fox and Dana Ivey) drop by. Fox plays a man quiet enough and thoughtful enough that you could almost believe he has a radio transmitter in the basement (which he does). Ivy's accurate portrayal of a loudmouthed, gregarious American makes the audience cringe: it is doubly funny because she has convinced the Jackson that she and her husband are Canadian. McGoohan? What...