Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court's famous Miranda decision last June wrought vast changes in police procedure with its ruling that every defendant must be told of his post-arrest rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer present at his interrogation. But what of the principal defendant whose conviction the Court overturned...
Then stillness and a turning of heads. Down a few steps from a doorway in the corner of the room walk a man and a woman?he, casual in slacks and cardigan sweater; she, sleek in blonde hair and black dress. Simultaneously, a full-sized movie screen begins a silent descent down a side wall. Playboy Editor-Publisher Hugh Marston Hefner, 40, sinks into a love seat that has been saved for him beside the 15-ft.-long stereo console. His girl friend, Playboy Cover Girl Mary Warren, 23, slips alongside him, puts her head on his shoulder. A butler...
...time is approaching when the instrumentalists of Powell's Music fall silent, and what is called for is a long, critical view of Powell on his podium. That "character is fate" is a cliché; the fate of Powell's characters is, like a capricious bomb, historical chance. There is really no sense in any of his creatures except their determination to make their folly explicit in their own words and actions. They live to die. Yet for many years to come, they will also live in the compelling echo of Powell's funereal dance...
...face of Romney's averred reluctance, Nixon remained silent under the stricture of his self-imposed moratorium on political activity. But in a November interview with the Saturday Evening Post, published last week, Nixon said that if he had been working for the nomination instead of helping 1966 Republican candidates, he "could probably have locked it up by now." Other, darker horses were naying with varying degrees of conviction. California's Ronald Reagan insisted that it would be "presumptuous" of him to remove his name from any primary ballot. And New York's Nelson Rockefeller, pledging...
...imbecile, the film's hero wanders the streets of San Francisco by day, a grown man pulling a little wagon that carries his Teddy bear. At night he goes back to the abandoned factory where a gang of derelicts chases him through the cellars with a terrible silent intensity. As interpreted with a marvelous simplicity by Taylor Mead, a Beat poet, the hero is part Chaplin and part Myshkin -a holy idiot, unaccommodated...