Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid," she declared not long ago. But a real star always saves up a twinkle or two for her twilight years, and last week sometime Actress Polo Negri, 65, femme fatale of many a silent movie, was back in the news. In San Antonio, Texas, it was announced that the late heiress Margaret West had willed Pola, her longtime friend and house guest, jewels, furniture, lifetime use of a San Antonio mansion and an income of $1,250 a month. Then, in Los Angeles, Walt Disney Productions announced that Pola is going to make...
...left in the woods. Readers of Golding's novel know the nature of the beast before the boys do; the movie audience is kept in witless suspense until it is revealed to be the body of a parachutist, shot down in an air battle high in the silent skies over the island. Golding gave a deeper meaning to this sky-fallen figure, for the boys' cowardice in not investigating may have cost the parachutist his life as he lay dying atop the tropical golgotha...
...schoolboys putting on a play for old boys' day. Their acting, for the most part, seems to be of the old Robert Flaherty documentary school -partly improvised, partly directed through a megaphone-and the read-along quality of the dialogue suggests that part of the picture was shot silent, dubbed later...
Across the silent ages, these small treasures are the voices of a people both busy and devout: ivory angels carved on a comb, a double lamp in a twin-tailed bronze dove, a polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...
...losing ground," says the Rt. Rev. Edward Ralph Wickham, Suffragan Bishop of Middleton. "We've already lost it." Of 27 million Englishmen baptized in the church, only 3,000,000 receive Communion even once a year, and cathedral deans hollowly conduct their stately services before a silent...