Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unusual move--even in religious courses--Cox requested the 70 students shopping Religion 1489: "Contemporary Interpretations of Jesus" take about one minute for silent reflection...
...calmly in Moscow and with quiet relief by Western diplomats, who have long said they would like to see either a healthy President or a new one. Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and National Security Adviser Alexander Lebed, the two most prominent candidates to be Yeltsin's successor, were deferentially silent. In the background, however, it was not difficult to hear the sound of knives sharpening as the two men prepared for the next round of their personal struggle for primacy...
...jump in profits for the first half of this year. The hefty $1.5 billion in earnings poured in after the budget impasse allowed a 10% sales tax on ticket prices to lapse on Jan. 1. Instead of passing on this tax break to travelers, carriers pocketed the money. This silent fare boost accounted for nearly half the increase in pretax profits that the eight largest airlines reported for the first six months, according to analyst Brian Harris of Lehman Brothers. The tax, which goes to the Aviation Trust Fund to improve airport safety and security, is expected to be reinstated...
...from its premiere at a tiny Left Bank venue in 1953, Godot seized the theatrical imagination. By reducing what occurs on the stage to essentials, Beckett expanded the horizon of the possible. Oh--and he made it funny. A fancier of the music hall and silent-film comedians, Beckett turned his stranded souls into entertainers. They dance, do calisthenics, trade philosophies and insults, do a giddy hat-switching routine. They could be Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys: wizened vaudevillians replaying the same old effective shtick for 50 years. They know the absurdity of their plight, yet like every Beckett character...
...More hard information was to be learned from TV than from the dark, but there were things that the cameras did not or could not pick up--the reek of the jet fuel burning; the twinkling helicopter lights competing with the stars; the moist, ominous air; the sight of silent, empty ambulances heading back to other quiet towns like Flanders and Manorville; or the people themselves, hunched in front of their TV sets, growing steadily more aware of their altered state...