Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snicker) "A lady wouldn't do that." (Dismissed); Rob, the awestruck and disoriented Midwestern roommate of the Death Poet, wandering about sadly, latching onto anyone who would listen, occasionally making conversation with the two calculator-addled physics jocks who haunted the stairs and discussed their SAT scores; the tall silent guy we nicknamed Frankenstein, stalking out at dusk, headed for God knew what, and returning at dawn...
...large group of editors, Wriston has criticized the press because "it often remains silent, or sometimes greets with approval the steady infringement of any right that does not involve free speech. One of the great unreported stories of the past 30 years is the steady erosion of individual rights that is turning us into a different kind of country. If we put a floor under wages and a ceiling over prices, a free man cannot long stand erect. Someone has to make it clear that the collision course between Government price and wage controls and personal liberty is inevitable because...
...tone score. As Lulu, Soprano Nancy Shade sings her precipitous vocal lines strongly and accurately, which is more of an achievement than it may sound. But she only acts out bewitching allure; she does not embody it. During rehearsals, the cast screened Louise Brooks' Lulu in the 1928 silent film of Wedekind's Pandora's Box- which may partly account for Shade's tendency to play the role as a jazz-age vamp...
Coogan had no guile in him and a heart as wide as a boulevard. When Coogan is forcibly separated from the Tramp, his adoptive father, his cries of desperation can be heard plainly even in this silent film...
DIED. Corinne Griffith, eightyish, star of silent movies (Black Oxen, 1924) and early talkies (Lilies of the Field, 1930); in Santa Monica, Calif. Griffith retired in 1932 to make a fortune in Beverly Hills real estate and to campaign for the repeal of the federal income tax, denying-in print and in divorce court-that she was the same Griffith who once graced the silent screen. "It tends to date one," she sniffed...