Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the tension in the courtroom, four defendants remained calm and moved their lips in what seemed to be silent prayer. The impulse was natural: the four were robed and cowled Capuchin friars, accused with three laymen of operating a spectacular extortion-murder ring in racket-ridden Sicily...
...decision to have each of the three scenes introduced by movie projections on a lowered screen effectively points up the satirical aspect of the play. There are crazy title credits worthy of Saul Bass, a flower-watering take-off on the silent cinema, and even a cross-eyed Mona Lisa. Approoutset with a Weillanously blasphemous parody of priate background music has been concocted by Robert Prince, who strikes the right note at the Rossini's Stabat Mater (which is, indeed, blasphemous even in the original), and later summons up remembrances or Mendelssohn's Spring Song and the concluding fanfare...
...must stay united. And woe to those who have wanted to know, and who do not belong to the people, the reasons for my renouncing the presidency. The reasons for my renouncement will be known in the public square.'' After his emotional but hardly enlightening speech, Quadros fell silent. In his purposely enigmatic way, he was testing the political air, and he probably found it good. His tentative early supporters in clude Guanabara State Governor Carlos Lacerda, who has had second thoughts about his bitter anti-Quadros denunciation that helped push Quadros toward abdication; demagogic Governor Leonel Brizola...
...filed suit against the airport. In 1956 he sold his house and five acres to the St. Philip's Episcopal Church (whose congregation has since been bothered only a few times on Sunday mornings; when that happens, says Pastor Donald Clawson, "we simply stop and say a little silent prayer for the pilot"). Griggs won his case, was awarded $12,690 in damages, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Allegheny County was not liable. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision reversed the Pennsylvania Court. Now Griggs will be entitled to seek higher damages against the county before...
...discreetly silent six-month cruise around the world, enigmatic ex-President Janio Quadros this week returns to Brazil, and to an Ash Wednesday welcome that well in advance was being built to heroic proportions. Some 6,000 workers from Rio de Janeiro were bound for the port of Santos to greet his ship. Bus caravans from all over Brazil are scheduled to take thousands more to cheer the prodigal's return...