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Before the debate, a number of speakers, including Caldicott, addressed the crowd. During her brief remarks on the medical effects of nuclear war, another speaker, Soviet dissident Un Tuvim, rushed onto the stage and tried to shout down Caldicott. The action sparked an angry reaction from the crowd and a television producer led Tuvim off the podium. Caldicott finished her speech...
...final scene is one of stinging pathos. Prostrated by his failure, Livingstone lies on his bed, near mental collapse. With self-imposed fortitude, Sechele shout-sings the hymnal verses, "Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising/ Give me joy in my heart, I pray," as if he were the trumpet of perdurable faith...
...Hamlet advised actors. But that was in the days before body mikes, when a performer would be hooted off the stage if the groundlings could not hear what he was saying. Now, thanks to what is euphemistically known as "sound reinforcement," a whisper can carry as far as a shout, and a clear, powerful voice, once mandatory equipment for a stage actor, is almost superfluous. Sound technicians receive prominent billing in Broadway shows, right next to set and costume designers, and the theater, which got along quite well for 2,500 years without electronics, thank you, is all but hooked...
Contradictory lessons of history shout at a President every day. One is that peace comes through power. Another is that weapons, once developed and stockpiled, are eventually used. Yet another is that people periodically demand reassurance that the destructive forces of war can be diminished. Presidents are hostage to all these thoughts...
...Salvadoran observers, D'Aubuisson saw the struggle as a "machismo" exercise to prove that he was tougher than the generals and the U.S. embassy combined. The boyish-looking former intelligence officer was encouraged by the gaggle of mostly female supporters who packed the assembly gallery each day to shout their support and hoot down the opposition. Before Magaña's selection, ARENA Leader Mario Redaelli boasted that he had told the U.S. embassy's political counsellor: "Maybe we should set up special ballot boxes for [U.S.] Senators and Congressmen to come down and vote directly...