Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nureyev's Valentino is mostly a credible performance, but he is no nascent film star. No glaring flaws scar his rendition of the silent film idol; he delivers a convincing Italian accent, and the spectacle of star-struck women clustering about this Valentino is plausible. The script wisely makes use of Nureyev's awesome talents on a dance floor at several stages, and the opportunity to watch him glide through tangos briefly takes one's mind off the film's many lesser moments. Russell did choose good raw material for the title character, but the script he co-authored with...
...King Vidor said a couple of weeks ago in the Times Sunday Magazine that he was surprised sound lasted back in 1929; after all, directors had made film into a great silent art form. Well, Vidor was wrong, of course, but Fritz Lang's 1923 murder story M. stands in tribute to the visual sweep and eloquence of silent film. Lang and Lubitsch made the German film industry in the 1920's the most technically brilliant and intellectually stimulating of any in the world; Lang's later Hollywood efforts were mostly cliched and dull. The movie stars the young Peter...
...guns fell silent in southern Lebanon last week, but no one could guess for how long. Under intense pressure from Washington, Jerusalem agreed to a ceasefire worked out by the U.S., and pulled its troops, trucks and armored personnel carriers back behind the Israeli border. There they remained poised, as an Israeli army officer put it, "ten minutes from the Christian enclave," should fighting resume between the Christian forces and their Palestinian enemies. Said Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who had inspected the Israeli forces: "I am keeping my fingers crossed, praying that [the ceasefire] will hold...
Superb defense by Harvard backs Bin Martineau and Wendy Sonnabend kept the Huskie attack silent, while Betty Ippolito's flawless goaltending kept all 13 Northeastern shots away from the Crimson net, and moved the J.V. record...
...silent for about five minutes then someone started screaming. Others picked up the scream and soon we were all yellling and cursing at Colgate and at ourselves for letting down. We jumped up and down and slapped the walls and each other and made up our minds to refuse to lose. Well, we lost that game but we did not lose gently. And we did not make excuses for it and we were not satisfied...