Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat's next steps in the Middle East will, to some degree, be influenced by Saudi Arabia. The Saudis were the silent partners at Camp David, for neither the U.S. nor Egypt can afford to ignore their views. Their bulging treasury supports Egypt's crippled economy, and their petroleum and financial reserves have served U.S. interests by tempering oil price hikes and helping support the weakening international position of the dollar. Sadat's journey to Jerusalem was publicly praised by the Saudis, though they had reservations about his chances for success. Because they are worried about the mounting influence...
...tour members' mood change. Most seemed relieved to have seen the grave, to know where their idol lay. He had sung to them when the world was fresh and bright, and he had kept singing when the greyness of middle-age rose all around, but finally he was silent, and they were left to face the future without the reassurance of his music. After visiting the grave most of the women visited Elvis shops, as though Elvis ash trays and posters and glasses would fill the void. They came away with armfuls of souvenirs...
...rooms, and it was about 12:30 when a drunken security guard at one of the electric power stations across town went berserk, throwing switches at random and putting all of Memphis into darkness on the eye of the first anniversary of Elvis's death, as if in great, silent tribute to the boy who dared to rock. The tribute was lost on most of the girls, who bolted and locked their doors, and sat or slept quietly within. I wandered the dark halls, accidentally meeting the hotel guest carrying the revolver, who told horror stories about hotels and blackouts...
...sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie acknowledges that people find his calm or silent phases "mysterious." He pauses and smiles. " 'Course they don't know I'm completely ripped...
...long period of seeming quiet, of drought, was actually a time of turmoil for Olsen. During the silent years Olsen must have read in every spare moment, laboriously copying what mattered to her, especially the phrases, sentences and paragraphs relating to her own blocked aspirations. In the brief hesitations between typing and ironing, cleaning, mending, tending to and fending for she must have rushed occassionally to jot down in hurried bursts the flashes, the sparks of insight which, though not then able to mature, could, in later years when she did have time, at least suggest directions of thought...