Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry Fonda is especially persuasive as the quiet, dignified marshal. It is very similar in its understatement to the role he played equally well in Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West." Both required Fonda to take on a stark, but powerful persona. The relationship he forges with Doc Holliday's former fiancee Clementine Carter (Cathey Downs) is noteworthy because it is one of the few times this mythical hero bares his human side. While Wyatt Earp is always under control as he approaches danger, it is a woman who takes him off guard...
...there a living, breathing adult who hasn't at times felt the nagging suspicion that in bedrooms across the country, on kitchen tables, in limos and other venues too scintillating to mention, other folks are having more sex, livelier sex, better sex? Maybe even that quiet couple right next door is having more fun in bed, and more often. Such thoughts spring, no doubt, from a primal anxiety deep within the human psyche. It has probably haunted men and women since the serpent pointed Eve toward the forbidden fruit and urged her to get with the program...
Saddam, alas, is a slow learner who rarely gets the point of any lesson. Apparently his main intent in moving the troops was to pressure the U.N. into lifting its draconian sanctions on Iraq in a forthcoming vote. And he might have achieved this if he had just kept quiet. The U.S. and Britain were the only two permanent members of the Security Council bound to vote to sustain the sanctions. Russia wants Iraq to repay $6 billion in prewar military debts; France seeks to resume lucrative commercial ties with Baghdad; China has weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think...
...fails to flesh out their personalities fully. More subtle differences between gender and social class need to be incorporated into the characters' demeanor so that there can be more tension brooding before it explodes. Some of the figures are more exaggerated than need be, while others are so quiet and reserved that their presence isn't felt...
What I find newsworthy about the Internet is the quiet revolution that has slowly taken place between researchers and the publishers of expensive research journals. It used to be that journal articles were only available by mail, directly from researchers or in libraries...