Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cadence of Randy Newman's lovely score, the Family takes center stage-a family as all-American as the Smiths in Meet Me in St. Louis. Father (James Olson) chats of his business successes; Mother (Mary Steenburgen) presides over the housework with quiet grace; Younger Brother (Brad Dourif) dreams of love with a showgirl. But there is something rancid about this slice of apple pie. The pauses at Sunday dinner are laced with anxiety; the ticking of the grandfather clock sounds like the prelude to an explosion of neurotic energy. The detonator...
That excitement has helped motivate Coppinger for almost three years, as a starting safety, and this year it has helped the Harvard captain urge on the team. "He's a quiet type of leader... he leads by example. He's not the rah-rah type," says linebacker Joe Azelby. "When we were having problems after the Army game, he gave us a talk before we left for Cornell...
Just when things are getting really bad. Yale student Saybrook Pierson (Wee Triharder), annoyed because he hasn't got a bit of studying done all weekend what with the noise and everything, calls in Archie Epps (John Fox) and John Fox (Archie Epps) to quiet things down. Epps and Fox respond immediately by reminding the rowdy students about some obscure rule concerning alcohol use. A committee is formed. Nobody pays attention, though, and the parties continue...
...rise and fall of a movie star: I "Who's Kingman Brewster?" II. "Get me Kingman Brewster." III. "Get me a Kingman Brewster type." IV. "Who's Kingman Brewster?" A Kingman Brewster type can be all things to all people. Most important, to alumni, he will keep things quiet. At a dinner last month the directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni--slavering in anticipation--asked student politicos from Faculty committees, "Would Harvard students fall for a Kingman Brewster...
...thrown in jail, shot in the back, consigned to an asylum. For the Polish workers, their first demands were quite simple--the rehiring of one shipyard employee, and wage increases. But then solidarity--and from it Solidarity--worked its invigorating power, and soon there was an air of quiet confidence and a long, long list of demands...