Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than good. Such business curbs as voluntary restraint on overseas spending by private companies and the interest-equalization tax that penalizes foreign borrowers in U.S. markets, Peterson warned, "chip away at what makes U.S. and world enterprises profitable and productive. The whole show," he said, "is reminiscent of a silent-motion-picture comedian trying to wrap an octopus in a blanket. Every time he gets one tentacle covered, another pops...
...lightly perfumed garden of erotic nuances. The encounters of Dean and Anne-Marie seem to require not reading but sensing, as if the touch of the eye were almost too much for reality. And when at last the dream breaks, it is not with a shatter but a silent splintering of crystal fragments...
...immensity of the change is spectacularly highlighted by the contrast with the decade of the 1950's. The complaint then was about the silent or apathetic generation, the generation of pre-organization men. The only prior decade which had given warning of the shape of things to come was the 1930's. But then students were adjuncts to the efforts of trade unionists, or of socialists and communists of the old Left, or of isolationists, America Firsters or pacifists. They were auxiliaries. They did not stand in their own right as a potential force in history...
...Andrews), a fresh-faced flapper in mad Manhattan circa 1922. As she sets out for her "adventures," Millie bobs her hair, raises her hemline and buys a string of beads. After peering down at her torso, she flutters her eyelids at the camera, whereupon the screen flashes a title, silent-movie style: "Gee, I wish my fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating...
...from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America-Dawn, a multi-totemed white creation, looms like a silent convocation of sentinels. Tropical Rain Forest hangs from the walls and ceiling of an entirely blackened corridor, inviting the visitor to stroll through the secret splendor...