Word: quiets
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...joins the losing baseball team of his Catholic school. In his final year, two major events converge: the team gets a star player who takes them to the playoffs and Nick's father, who Nick adores, reveals that he has cancer. Though this emotional scene takes place in a quiet living room, Jeffrey uses the visuals to turn the page into a violent series of explosions and splattered corporeal matter, ending with the bruising line, "The moment the word 'cancer' left his mouth, he died." The pain of the moment becomes manifested on the page...
...environment, this powerful, comfortable SUV fills the bill. It doesn't make sense to buy the 400h to save money, given that the hybrid system adds about $5,000 to the price, eating up any savings on gas. But you will travel farther between fill-ups and enjoy a quiet ride...
...cadets who are going to go to Iraq doesn't mean I need to make them watch people getting their heads cut off," he says. Sometimes, after his class discussion veers into the dangers that lie ahead, "I look to see that the cadets walk out kind of quiet, with their heads down, like I'd just told them my mother died. Then I know I've reached them...
...Cronenberg's A History of Violence, a quiet Midwestern family man (Viggo Mortsensen) is accused by some visiting gangsters of having been a hit man in Philly. In Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, a retired computer mogul (Bill Murray) learns that 20 years ago he fathered a child who is now trying to find him. In Marsh's The King, a preacher (William Hurt) who a generation earlier fathered and abandoned a child out of wedlock must pay for his age-old sin when the son (Gael Garcia Bernal) shows up. And in Von Trier's Manderlay, set in Alabama...
...Stall runs both his Millbrook, Ind., luncheonette and his family -wife Edie (Maria Bello), teenage son and kindergartenish daughter -with a gentle authority. Tom is the quiet, good-humored sort of fellow small-towners are proud to call one of their own, especially after he thwarts an armed robbery of his business by two vicious thugs. Thanks to his surprisingly adroit gunplay, they're dead and he's a hero, with a sudden fame that makes him uncomfortable. His unease escalates when some other toughs, led by one-eyed Fogerty (Ed Harris), drop in, declaring that Tom is one Joey...