Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Think about this for a minute: exactly 30 years and two days ago people in Hiroshima, Japan, woke up in the morning and saw a huge silent brilliant flash of light in the sky that brought with it a moment later a great, deadly shock force. The flash and the shock came from a bomb, one that an American in a plane had dropped; there days later, 30 years ago tomorrow, another American plane dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki...
...assigned to the U.S. embassy in Quito, Ecuador, and then in Montevideo, Uruguay. Hodapp's good works later made him aide to the U.S. ambassador in Mexico. As described by Agee, the CIA's penetration of these South American nations was so thorough that it became a silent partner in the governments. Mexican authorities cooperated with the CIA to such an extent that the Company could tap 40 key telephone lines...
...here. These are parents who did their best to bring their children up right, and as a result their children will never be satisfactory adults. Each sketch ends with a total breakdown in communication. The child leaves, and the parents are left stunned, offering up "a silent prayer" for their child's "success...
Kelly himself is at least passable as a 1920s silent screen idol making the transition to talkies, and of course he's much more than passable when he's dancing. But the rest of the cast is just too much. The same heavy-handed twenties hamming that the movie ostensibly spoofs seems to have infected their acting style. Debbie Reynolds starts out insulting Kelly with all the petulance of an angry kewpie doll (and of course for him it's love at first sight, since she's "the first dame who hasn't fallen for his line since...
...photographers at the press conference flashed shots of Sissy Farenthold's face in quick succession, making a stage of the Sheraton ballroom look like the setting of silent movie. "I must say I'm not particularly entranced with any candidate for president in this country. Many senators who have said they would support the Equal Right Amendment have note voted for it and I've seen this happen many times. It's a simple thing. We just want to be part of the U.S. Constitution...