Word: silent
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...American terms he's a little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...
Harvard also did a fine job defensively on Brown star guard Eric Blackiston. He managed to score 19 points, but was silent for much of the second half...
...dykes and queers. The sexual act is no typology of gender roles. A look at the sexual act can only show that McGuire's is a limited, particular and constructed understanding. For example, do we say that the penis breaks in while the vagina remains passive and receptive, a silent victim of rape? Gender roles simply do not partition as neatly as McGuire suggests...
DeGreeff compares the harassment by studentmembers of the Boston Church of Christ to sexualharassment. "There are a lot of silent victims oncampus because they're embarrassed," he says...
...grandmother and great-grandmother. ``Until about 7 last night,'' a bystander said, ``we could hear the little girl calling okasan, okasan [mother, mother].'' But the fatigued firemen, performing a kind of triage, ignored the dwelling for easier rescues nearby. Now, as they began to dig, the crumpled house was silent. Alone in its rubble stood a large bronze statue of Kannon, a female representation of the Buddha; her name means ``the one who hears cries...