Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd that jammed the tiny side-court gallery realized that Francis was hot. Packing the seats, leaning over the railings, hanging from steam pipes, and peering from underneath the seats, they had kept up a steady din rarely heard at a squash match. Now they became silent...
Littlefield will play Diedre Dauphine, a former star of stage and the silent screen who agrees to appear in a television spectacular of a shakespeare play. The spectacular's sponsor is a company owned by Mrs. Biltmore St. Regis, a New York cosmetic industry cxarina played by Bright...
First Hint. The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch...
First came a phalanx of women and children, and behind them the short, silent, barrel-chested men armed with slingshots, rusty rifles, and carrying Tierra o Muerte banners. Once again Peru's restless peasants were trying to chase landowners off their estates. The invasions have been going on for months, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Bela...
Because of the force of his personality and because his extroverted life lends itself well to visual presentation, Bruno dominates the screen. But he never really changes and, though he at first overshadows the law student, Roberto's silent, internal development assumes prime significance. Enchanted by the older man, Roberto (Jean Louis Trintignant) gradually becomes emancipated from his Caspar Milquetoast past. Bruno catalyzes Roberto's transformation. For example, the law student loses a bit of his innocence only when Bruno reveals the old family caretaker, Gaylord, as a homosexual...