Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than the author's general mistrust of women, being in point of fact the dramatization of a true incident. For years Courteline had been living on the other side of a paper-thin wall from the mistress of poet Catulle Mendes, and for as many years had been silent witness to the infidelities she would blithely commit with a hidden lover the minute Mendes had closed the door behind him. Years later Courteline confessed all this to Mendes, who found it very amusing and insisted that the material was too good to go to waste. Hence a short story...
...tiny Marble, Colo., (pop. 5) stepped 44 boys from slums and suburbs in 15 states. There they stood awed and silent. All around were 14,000-ft. mountains covered with snow, aspen, blue spruce and Douglas fir; in the craggy heights roamed elk, bear and mountain sheep. The boys could tell it was no place for softies as they started trudging up the steep, three-mile road to a campsite high above the Crystal River Valley. Under the deep blue sky waited tents, blazing alpine meadows and leathery-faced instructors. "I hope you will enjoy your stay here," declared...
...patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual: the bent-over Endore circles round and round the enemy corpse in a silent, semihysterical Indian war dance...
Such sight gags as the football player outwitting the entire onrushing opposition are so original that they are hilarious. With the visual aspect of motion pictures offering so much, one wonders why writers try so hard to work clever lines into modern day comedy. When the silent picture comedies - obviously built around the visual aspect - gave way to the talkies, the devices of slapstick, film speed-up and character expression still lent the most to the humor that was involved...
...forced open and five gallons of water from a rusty old can gradually poured into his mouth. The youth gagged and screamed, but refused to talk, even when prodded with a rifle butt. The water treatment was more frightening than hurtful; at the end of the day, the still-silent boy was fully recovered and able to march three miles out of the area with his captors...