Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claims of Victory. Soon, the guns fell silent along 1,000 miles of battle ground between India and Pakistan. At Pakistani airbases, pilots stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...
Soon they are all allegory-bound on horseback-killing each other, losing their horses and themselves, exchanging long looks. "I have always had it in my mind to do a silent picture," says Director Bourguignon, "and this one is two-thirds silent. The last reel is practically without dialogue...
Emphasizing the internal instability that sabotaged the Goldwater forces, Shaddeg lambastes speechwriters who toyed with ideas and ignored the counsel of experienced politicians. Goldwater did nothing to mend the flaws in his organization. The Republican nominee kept silent, supplying neither the control nor the inspiration that could have soldered together the splitting elements which supported him. Shaddeg leaves the impression that Goldwater would have obediently read anything his speechwriters handed him-indicating that he possessed a powerful general credo but nothing concrete on which to built a winning campaign...
...eloquence and persistance, force the Administration and its policy-makers to recognize the spirit and intelligence he represents. Or, like Stevenson before him, this man--who forsaw the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs, who forsaw the neutralism of Tito, who now for-sees more Santo Domingos--can fall silent and allow the Consensus to engulf and encyst...
...startling but quite predictable reason that Film scores is its sole actor: Buster Keaton, 68, who was known to generations of silent-filmgoers as the funny man who never smiled. And Keaton is the movie's toughest critic. "I don't know what the picture's about," he complains. "It's so goddam arty I'm surprised the audience didn't walk...