Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down it always has in the past. And meanwhile attendance wil keep dropping at women's marches posters wil keep featuring degrading "teasers" to titillate ticket buyers and men will continue to rape women quietly perhaps in dark alleys--not with a cheering barroom audience but with a silent and much larger one. --March...
...LONGR AND MORE SERIOUS, does nothing to dissipate the warm cloud of pleasure left by the appetizer. In this piece the soloists are replaced by a chorus flustered around the piano; more interesting Persephone herself speaks as she walks through her part, though the dancing nymphs around her remain silent. Unfolding on the same simple, two tiered black framework as Renard; the scene for Persephone shifts only through the lighting which poignantly points the difference between Heaven and Hell...
...solace. Fanny's small yet important role emphasizes the portrait's subtlety; on the surface the film could have been called simply Alexander, but blue-eyed Allwin as Fanny blossoms into a young adult as well by watching her brother's experiences. But Fanny is more of a silent observer. Alexander records the journey; and his recording reinforces the events themselves in affirming the importance and the reality of the imagination...
...Kremlin and its Warsaw Pact allies were uncharacteristically silent. But the subject of Poland is sure to come up at a meeting of Warsaw Pact leaders that could occur in Moscow as early as this week. For the Soviets, there was at least one disturbing sign that the Polish disease may be creeping across East-bloc borders. During a government-sponsored peace congress in Prague, a group of 300 youths marched toward Wenceslas Square, the scene of protests after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and shouted, "We want peace! We want freedom!" The demonstration was small by Polish...
...tapes save days in pretrial hearings by permitting judges to determine quickly if a confession is voluntary and can be used as evidence. They leave no doubts that the suspect was read his Miranda rights to remain silent and have an attorney, and that he waived them. The tapes also provide clear, tamperproof visual records for all trial participants. Another unanticipated benefit: defendants seem willing to confess when looking at the little red light. Brighton, for instance, pleaded guilty after making his statement on the tube and was sentenced to six to 18 years in prison. From the time...