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Depending on the strength of some of more promising contenders, he says, one or two of the other councillors—particularly those who have been relatively silent over of the past term—may have to fight hard for their positions...
From the medium's infancy, when the Keystone Kops commandeered the streets of Los Angeles, car chases provided the purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...
...Another indicator is a sign at the KBGC. Instead of hectoring members to switch off their mobiles, it simply asks for phones to be put on silent mode. No Chinese will be parted from his cellular, so that one small sign tells a long story of cultural accommodation. "I mean no disrespect to the locals," says Gawler, "but they're not really as sociable as the expats. They don't get drunk and that. A lot of them come in here, pour themselves a glass of water, read the paper and go away again...
...trudged up JFK Street after that Beanpot game, mostly silent, but both recognizing that something transcendent had occurred. “There’s something about this game,” he finally said. “Something about this game that creates things like this. It wouldn’t happen anywhere else.” And there was more to be said about the magic of the moment, but there was no need to go on articulating it at length, because we both understood. That may be what I miss most about Brian Fallon. The insight...
...students, unsure of how to react, did nothing. Traditional Harvard liberalism, activism and reasoned judgment each made their unceremonious retreats. All of this was invisible to John Harvard, of course, as he looked out on the small world of the Yard. Impervious to war and unrest alike, he sat silent and watchful, stilled by the American flag fluttering softly above his head...