Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last week De Gaulle cracked down on this insubordination, ordered his Ministers to keep silent about the negotiations. "Over the Algerian affair," said De Gaulle icily, "the people of Metropolitan France are entirely behind...
...sculptors from 33 nations exhibited some 3,000 works whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible. So abstract are all these works that they are beyond critical judgment...
...Pennsylvania (81 votes) got the silent treatment. Governor David Lawrence, who has steadfastly refused to look in Kennedy's direction or to relax his grip on his restive delegation, was silent too. Kennedy's hope was that if he could show Lawrence the ears and tail of New York and California, Lawrence would put aside his misgivings about a fellow Roman Catholic's ability to win the presidency, and capitulate...
...Chaplin is just as eccentric as ever: "Such a contradiction. I always have to carry a large supply of loose change when we go out-to do the tipping. And then he'll go off and buy me an expensive car!" Sometimes the little tramp of the old silent films is equally confusing to his children: "When Victoria saw her first Charlie Chaplin movie, she asked, 'Was that funny little man my grandfather...
...nightmare that follows is expertly gothic, but the nausea never disappears. Little should be said of the plot-Hitchcock enjoins all viewers to be silent-except that Anthony Perkins, who plays an amateur taxidermist, is sickeningly involved, and that a blow is dealt to mother love from which that sentiment may not recover. Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror...