Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Washington remained silent, wanting to get the peace agreement signed and the release of war prisoners under way. But last week the State Department publicly expressed "concern," and President Nixon himself followed up by demanding that Hanoi accept the limitations imposed by the Paris Accord. "Based on my actions of the past four years," he declared, "the North Vietnamese should not lightly disregard such expressions of concern." He seemed to be implying that, if the infiltration continues, he would renew the U.S. bombing of Communist supply lines...
Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who has recently been pressing a diplomatic campaign to enlist sympathy for the Arab viewpoint, remained pointedly silent. So did King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, once a noted financial contributor to the Palestinians. He could hardly have been pleased that the attack took place in the Saudi embassy and that the Saudi ambassador was one of the five hostages. Even Yasser Arafat, the leader of Al-Fatah, the largest Palestinian nationalist group, made a point of trying (some what unconvincingly) to dissociate his organization from Black September...
...visits to both Peking and Moscow. The triangular ballet was performed with finesse. Gromyko and Chi confronted each other only once. When the South Vietnamese fought for a provision recognizing the Saigon government as the only legitimate regime in the South, Gromyko sharply opposed it, while Chi remained silent. Gromyko later stalked over to Chi and asked: "Did your silence mean support of the South Vietnamese?" Chi stared at Gromyko with disdain, then turned his back. The provision was rejected...
...your high-school dietician, must tell Caesar, her husband, that she has wrecked his beloved car. From there the film builds rapidly to an unlikely skirmish in a movie theater, a board meeting presided over by a chairman concerned only with his lunch, and a fond parody of a silent film called The Sewing Machine Girl. Finally there is a cli max of unsparing hilarity: a send-up of From Here to Eternity entitled From Here to Obscurity, starring Caesar as Montgomery Bugle; and a devastating reworking of a TV show called This Is Your Story, with Reiner...
...silent winter evenings, Radcliffe students in the future may hear the rumble of subway cars beneath their dwellings...