Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told Cosmopolitan readers: "You've got to make yourself more cupcakeable all the time so that you're a better cupcake to be gobbled up." Meanwhile Hugh Hefner was giving Playboy readers lessons on how to lick off the frosting without actually paying for that cake. Like silent partners, Brown and Hefner-Miss Cupcake and Mr. Sweet Tooth-shared the profits of the sexual revolution* while remaining happily oblivious to the militant feminism that arrived in its wake...
...green-eyed girl was from Worcester, a freshman at Clark, who lived at home and liked a silent German movie whose title she couldn't recall. I took her picture, and she took mine, and we waited for candidates and movie stars to show up. The Yorty lady gave me a button and promised that Sam would be here before the polls closed. Sam never made it, although his red, white, and blue traveling trailer did. As the Yorty lady stepped up into the van she shook my hand, looked at me and said, "I'll never forget...
...Southwest in 1968 as one of the key experiences in his work-especially some nights he spent camping on the edge of the Grand Canyon, which provoked a long autobiographical poem named Grand Canyon Search Ceremony as well as a number of paintings: "It was a holy atmosphere, so silent, so vast; I was stunned...
...studios are falling into disuse, mere relics of a fabulous past. Those empty staring studio roads, shimmering with heat, shrouded with dust, are more truthful than the occasional bustling sound stage you may stumble into. Most of the sound stages lie as empty as the roads, but more silent still--and their darkness is total. The studios--once collectively turning out 500 pictures a year, now making maybe 150--sprawl silently, thick with the dust of their roads, under the whitish sky of Los Angeles...
...woolly silence, thoughts emerge slowly, but with a perfect weighty clarity, like globes of blown glass. Right away, you notice that the gritty daytime haze of dust has disappeared, to be replaced by night, and it is like being on the ocean floor, so slow is it and silent, so dimly blue...