Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stupid. Almost everybody manages to prevent the insistent Colliermen from getting in his door, despite a sales talk designed to make it as difficult as possible for a family to turn down the company's "offer." A person who started listening, liked what he saw, and remained silent when told the cost of the books was only "small change" gradually became committed to buying...
...bosses wouldn't let them turn on the sound, so they watched the festivities on a silent screen: Nixon flapping his arms around like a man possessed, the three astronauts inside their glass cage on board the ship, grinning like monkeys in a wonderfully exotic...
...Though silent during the discussion, Pat Wall was going through an internal process of decision. Soon a petition was passed around. One woman pointed out that it called for complete and immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops, and refused to sign. She argued that such precipitous action was impractical. When the petition reached Pat, she hesitated, started to pass it along, then got it back and signed...
...marvels of cliff-hanger balance. Later artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella solidified and emboldened color and clipped its ragged edges, while Morris Louis thinned his paints to the consistency of water and sent them streaming over unprimed canvas in free-flow ing rainbows. Within silent, seemingly impenetrable monochromes, Ad Reinhardt discovered an invisible world...
Died. Rod La Rocque, 70, movie matinee idol of the '20s and '30s, who rose to stardom in such silent swashbucklers as Captain Swagger and The Love Pirates, married the Hungarian heartthrob Vilma Banky in one of the film colony's splashiest weddings in 1927, and in defiance of all Hollywood tradition remained married to her forever after; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...