Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting to hear just when and for how long they would permit oil to flow to the U.S. again; according to one report, they will decide two months after the embargo's end whether to keep the oil flowing or cut off shipments once more. They were equally silent on how soon they would cancel a 15% production cutback and pump as much oil as they did before the Arab-Israeli war broke out last October-a matter of even more importance for U.S. and world oil supply and prices than the embargo itself...
...like seeing a sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly as great as the initial feelings engendered by the film." This week, with showings of the film stuffed in between showings of another, there won't be time...
...mediocre production. Chekhov never does. Tumarin's City Center production is funny--too funny--but it's good anyway. It can't measure up to the National Theatre's amazing acting, but that's, after all, only a movie of a play, and marred by some jazzed-up silent dream sequences, at that. The parallel monologues of a large number of characters demand a stage: filmed Chekhov never seems to find the right tone...
...resign if the other party failed to get a majority. But Harold Wilson had historical precedent on his side in contending that it was his right to form the next government-indeed, never before in similar circumstances had a British Prime Minister refused to step down. As Heath sat silent in No.10 Downing Street, Wilson issued a terse statement from Labor headquarters a few blocks away. Underscoring the urgent need for a government that could deal promptly and decisively with the coal miners' strike and the three-day work week, he declared that "the Conservatives now lack any authority...
Fifty-four years ago, Calvin Coolidge was the newly inaugurated president of the United States; the same year John Sullivan came to Harvard. Coolidge, a silent flash in the panorama of presidents, did his part for America and then quietly withdrew. John Sullivan, now nearing 80, is still at Harvard, helping out the Athletic Department as per usual for the last half-century...