Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clairol commercials. ("Now I am full of vitality. Before I was such a poor drab thing..." says one blonde character to another.) The production is paced like an old movie running on a rusty projector. There is no tension, no energy. Characters constantly strike poses straight out of silent pictures--but with none of the old film actors' sincerity...
...plea or trial. The report acknowledges that factors in the poor conviction record may include the shortage of policemen and such restrictions on police power as the still controversial Miranda rule, which requires the arresting officer to inform the suspect of his rights to counsel and to remain silent. But it puts the essential blame on the police themselves, especially for what the study asserts is an obsession with the idea of measuring crime-fighting efficiency only by the number of arrests they make. This policy, described by outgoing FBI Director Clarence Kelley in his foreword as "a perspective that...
Lebanese officials meanwhile admitted to knowing of only 20 cases in their country (unofficial estimate: 100). Jordan announced 314 cases, Saudi Arabia 17. Israel had three, all West Bank residents, one of whom had traveled to Jordan. While Turkey remained silent about the disease within its borders, a woman who had just arrived in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from the Turkish city of Erzurum was hospitalized with cholera. The four other cases in Europe also involved victims who had been traveling in either Turkey or Iraq. Opposition politicians in Turkey accused the Ankara government of hiding the news that 34 children...
...home in Oxon Hill, Md., where he had a long-awaited reunion with his five children. Will Liddy, who has staunchly refused to talk about Watergate, now break his silence? Publishers are said to be offering as much as $300,000 for his story, but he is silent even about their offers. His wife, however, has said...
...everyone who examines what happened will agree on one thing: a factor that no one in Chile foresaw became a keystone in the opposition's effort to undermine the U.P. No one predicted that American companies would place a silent boycott of Chilean copper after the mines were nationalized, or that American banks would refuse to lend the U.P. money. This quiet ostracism crippled Chile's economy, ending its sources of foreign exchange so that it could not buy the imported goods upon which it had relied. Shortages of luxury and some basic goods--created both by the foreign exchange...