Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both teams were silent until the eighth inning, when the Red Sox scored two more runs, on an RBI double by Lynn, and a run-scoring single...
...fairness. According to several workers and students who have seen Simpson in action, he likes his workers to be docile, cooperative--and white. Both black and white workers in the College Dining Hall--Balsam included--have recently criticized Simpson for his overt racism; Simpson, for his part, has remained silent on the issue. He also remained silent, in fact, through the recent Paul Glass case. Glass, himself black, was suspended by Simpson for what Glass characterized as "racial reasons...
...large Virginia home was dark at 9:30 p.m., and Ted Kennedy, in a denim shirt and slacks, sat alone in the high-ceilinged library. He looked ruddy, handsome and, with his thick legs and arms, somewhat burly. The house was totally silent. In front of him on the glass table was his attache case, opened up and spilling over with business. Earlier in the day, as he left the office, one of his closest aides had wondered aloud if the Senator ever got lonely; it seemed an odd question about a man so constantly surrounded by people, so constantly...
...have been forced to franchise a number of their shops, but keep a firm hand on their agents. Buccellati and Bulgari are brother acts: one brother minds the store in New York while the others produce the jewels back home. Salvatore Ferragamo, who got his start making shoes for Silent Screen Stars Mary Pickford and Pola Negri, left his business to his widow, six children and a nephew. Mario of Florence lives in Manhattan and commutes to his factory in Florence. "I think I'm Alitalia's best customer," says Giuliana di Camerino, who lives in Venice...
...Great Dictator. Chaplin, it seems, can do nothing inconsequential. Even this, which many people don't find very funny, seems to delineate the conflicts between silent and talking pictures as clearly as anything ever will. It's so much slower and more static than his silent features, and his persona does not translate well to sound. Once he began to talk, the Tramp was no longer very funny, but Chaplin's Hitler figure, Adenoid Hynckel, stumbled onto the fact that much of sound comedy has to do with an assault on the ear. The Dictator's nonsense talk strikes...