Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they checked too hard on an obvious phony, they were running the risk of smearing the President. British newsmen, perhaps recalling how they had been criticized for suppressing the news about Edward VIII's romance with Wallis Warfield Simpson, now privately chided the U.S. press for staying silent. Last Sept. 2, recognition in a mass U.S. publication was given for the first time to the fact that the question even existed. The Sunday supplement Parade (circ. 10 million) published a reader's letter asking about the truth of the Blauvelt genealogical item; Parade's answer...
Spartacus, in fact, was more pantomime than dance-and silent-screen pantomime at that. From the first sledgehammer chord, accompanied by the projection of Rome's Colosseum on the scrim curtain, spectators might well have guessed that they were in for triumphal processions, slave girls, gladiators and courtesans, eye-rolling, tooth-gnashing and a dose of belly dancing. By Scene 2 of Act I, 16 corpses were sprawled about the stage...
...Hollywood western. When the film begins, the town is divided, just as the modern world is divided, into two armed camps. In each of them, like a land-grabbing cattleman surrounded by gunmen, sits a vicious little warlord surrounded by swordsmen. Enter the hero (Toshiro Mifune), a strong, silent, shabby samurai whose sword is for hire and no questions asked. He looks the situation over: sheriff bullied, citizens cowed, streets full of corpses, business at a standstill. Grimly he reflects: "Better if all these men were dead...
...small-town railroad telegrapher is a determined member of a dying breed. He sits in a paint-peeling station house, idly fingering silent keys and dreaming of days when fellows such as young Thomas Edison made the vagabond telegrapher a giant among men and a hero to small boys. Times have passed him by, auto mated relay systems have obsoleted him -but the telegrapher hangs on by a finger...
...Kees Van Dyk) who is beginning to discover that success has problems as well as pleasures. To satisfy the public appetite for his work he paints too much, starts to repeat himself. Bored and anxious, he charges nervously about Manhattan, finds himself suddenly on a mysterious island in the silent center of the moiling metropolis...