Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funnymen feeding sharp lines to one another. Stand-up comedians bring in the laughs and with them, the audiences by asking that they be laughed at, or that the audience laugh at what they say. But The Proposition is a dialogue of laughter in which the audience is the silent partner which laughs with the troupe. You won't love them; you'll fall in love with them...
...House, Veteran Emanuel Celler, a doughty proponent of stiff gun laws, concluded sadly that he lacked votes to overcome a House Rules Committee roadblock. Though Celler won support for a measure banning interstate mailorder sales of rifles, shotguns and ammunition, he had to compromise by promising to remain silent on gun registration and licensing...
Nathanson: You know, you can do a fantastic industrial campaign on the idea of a silent pen. Because just think of the noise level. I mean, nothing is noisier than these competitor's pens. Everybody quiet. Just listen. (He scratches first with the competitor's pen, then with a Flair...
...athletic teams or fun-centered weekends, almost no extracurricular activities. Days and nights are occupied with grinding, hard, solitary work. Left largely on their own, given little direction by haughty teachers who are forever talking down to them, French students have become -in the classroom, at least-a sullen, silent and smoldering...
...chickens, which at least were living things. Literally returning to infancy during psychotherapy, he put the second fantasy to ultimate use. On the day Joey first crossed the border to the world of humans, he crawled under a blanket-covered table, cackled excitedly, flapped his "wings," then grew silent. "I laid myself an egg," he said moments later. "Then I hatched myself and gave birth to me." Joey spent six years at the Orthogenic School. Restored, he has since finished high school, and now works as a TV repairman...