Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there, but Akkad, 43, a Syrian-born American who studied film making at U.C.L.A., pressed on, raising $17 million from Arab sources to make two versions of the story, one in English, the other in Arabic. His actors constantly address an empty space where the audience must imagine a silent Prophet to be standing...
...hands. She gestured with liquid motions as she spoke, occasionally running a green-and-white plastic comb through her dark short-cropped hair. In what Witke described as her "imperial proletarian style," Chiang Ch'ing was surrounded by aides, bodyguards, her own doctors; the retinue hovers around her, silent and watchful; a scribe duly notes everything that she says; nobody else talks while Chiang Ch'ing is giving her monologue. She even made it clear to Witke that she did not like to be interrupted by questions...
...Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes carried through most of the concert. The suite, in three parts, was delivered in all its interesting orchestration, especially in the dialogues between the timpani and the winds, and in the passages in which the strings play while the remaining players are silent...
...foreground our poor heroine pitiously bemoans as the barker comes to foreclose her mortgage and an Indian threatens her if she refuses to yield to his demands. Suddenly, clad like the true-blue forest ranger he is, our hero appears to save her. Sound like a scene from a silent movie anyone ever associated with it would rather forget? No, it's the storyline for Little Mary Sunshine, the operetta playing at South House this weekend...
...crowd remained silent for Feldman's hour and a half lecture, until he brought up the subject of the feminist movement. His statement that a quarrelsome wife was the result of repressed sexual desires was greeted with hisses from the audience...