Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre last scene. The dull appearance of the Civic Center was not much relieved by Rocky-style bunting tacked over a small ring. Eight or ten thousand spectators contributed a dollar or two admission price to charity. They savaged M.C. Howard Cosell, who demanded, "All right, quiet!" And they serenaded Muhammad Ali, who looked like the winner of a pie-eating contest...
Mostly because it is . . . well . . . still. For a movie about a series of gory knife murders (and that had the working title Stab), it has an oddly reverential hush about it. This seems to arise less from a regard for the Hitchcock tradition than from a quiet appreciation of its own classiness. As a murdered man's psychiatrist, drawn into the investigation of his patient's death and also toward his suspiciously nervous mistress, Scheider is sober, stalwart and workmanlike, but one longs for the goofy exasperation Cary Grant used to bring to roles like this...
...Monday, the Marion, Ohio native had put the game behind him, and was back on the practice field, assuming his customary position as a quiet leader. "I realized there was nothing we could do," he admits. "We just had to get back to business and start preparing for Yale...
...just that business-like attitude that has impressed his teammates and coaches. "We're extremely pleased with everything Mike's done," said Larry Gleuck, who as offensive backs coach has watched Granger's development. "Mike's a quiet person but he's certainly one of the team leaders. He's not a hollered or a screamer, he just goes out and performs, and leads the team by his example...
...Whether I could keep my eyes open watching that thing blast off, knowing that Jeff is inside of it. I don't really know," Elizabeth Hoffman adds, recalling that "he never seemed like a real daredevil type" and was "basically very quiet and scholarly" as a youngster...