Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WEST POINT, N.Y.--Against a backdrop of blue, green and gray, sunflecked mountains and a small, calm lake, Army's Michie Stadium hardly seems an appropriate place for a football game. Perched on top of a hill and engulfed by an eerie pre-game quiet, the U.S. Military Academy's athletic battlefield is incongruously serene. As one plebe remarked with a smile, "Looks nice from the outside, doesn...
...correspondent resident in Warsaw. (Even so, when the trouble broke out in late August, the Times's former chief European correspondent, Flora Lewis, was in Majorca and had to begin her new foreign affairs column: "There is a special poignancy in hearing the news from Poland on this quiet, sun-soothed Spanish island...
DIED. Lewis Milestone, 84, director of nearly 40 films, notably the 1930 Academy Award-winner All Quiet on the Western Front; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Milestone won his first Oscar for a 1927 war comedy called Two Arabian Knights. He also directed the 1931 version of The Front Page, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, the 1940 Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, and the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando...
...excitement ran high so violence was feared. At the height of the tumult, the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, despite his 49 years and large bulk, climbed into the old oak and from his point of vantage addressed the people to such good purpose that quiet was restored and the election proceeded." Winthrop won, but he and his followers returned to Cambridge only sporadically over the years, usually to meet in Harvard Hall when smallpox outbreaks threatened their safety in Boston...
Unfortunately, the positive pitches run the risk of being so bland as to go nearly unnoticed among all the teary dramatics and canned laughter of commercial television. Despite some lively visual effects, the Carter ads have been almost too successful in portraying the President as the quiet, calm, hard-working-and uninspiring -man that he is. Reagan is shown more often simply as what the TV experts term "a talking head"-just Ronnie in an easy chair, making his simple points in his smooth, soothing voice. The aim of the ads, says Reagan Aide Stuart Spencer, is to emphasize Reagan...