Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine had been written, edited and was being "put to bed" by the production department and TIME'S printing plants. After midnight Saturday, the editors' offices in the Time & Life Building were quiet and so, it seemed, was the world. Jacalyn McConnell was alone at the news desk, routinely monitoring the overnight wire-service reports and Cable News Network broadcasts...
...this garden, nothing apparently happens because time has apparently stopped, and Bartlett's images of frame-by-frame shift are a way of shaking it back into life. The place is so ambiguously quiet that after a while the kitschy little statue starts to come alive. Small changes take on enhanced significance, as in Wind, 1983, where the whipping of the cypress fronds, black as gnawed brushes against an unmemorably blank sky, is al most the only change (apart from eyeline) from one panel to the next. In this way -paradoxically enough, in view of her constricted subject - Bartlett...
...raids on the homes of young computer enthusiasts in 13 cities were part of a federal investigation into reports of widespread abuse of computer networks. For months authorities have been waging a quiet war of nerves with the thousands of teen-agers who use their home terminals and telephone hookups to dial into larger systems around the country. Most are careful to do no harm, but for those bent on doing damage, the opportunities are boundless. One 14-year-old brags that he penetrated a computer belonging to a brokerage firm and erased a group of commodity trading accounts. Particularly...
...voice and gestures until his idiosyncrasies become grating and tiresome. Pericles, played by Ben Halley Jr. mimics a stiff operatic James Earl Jones, a stunning figure with fine diction, but his manner is too rigidly classical and neither dramatic nor human. Sandra Shipley as Thaisa plays her role with quiet understanding and control. With only a few lines, she surmounts Pericles as the family's core. Jeannie Affelder '83 as Marina speaks and moves with soulless uniformity, relieved only by her song, which is sweet and sonorous. Other high points include Paul Redford '81 as the gregarious and amusing buffoon...
...even with the quiet confidence that surrounds the Harvard squad these days, there is still one fact that worries supporters: the jinx...