Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to snap out of it offensively," Wentzell said. "Our bats have gone silent and we're hitting a lot of lazy fly balls. We're just not going to win games against teams like this without hitting...
Most importantly, the couple concurs that they will be married soon after graduation, which is approximately one year since Vincent proposed. "Last summer after I thought about it for a while. I decided to call her up and ask her," he says. "She was silent on her end of the phone for about 10 minutes I thought she was dead. The next thing I said was, 'Anna are you alive...
...weigh in on difficult issues like arms control. Complains Maryland Republican Senator Charles Mathias: "There is too little depth and experience in foreign policy. Reagan hasn't any, Weinberger hasn't any, Clark hasn't any." In other Administrations, packed with scrappy egos, a strong, silent type at the head of the NSC might have fitted in well. But for this Administration, clearly, there is a need for someone at Clark's position who can bring prudence and substantive experience as well as order to the task. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett...
DIED. Dolores Del Rio, 78, enduringly beautiful Mexican movie actress; in Newport Beach, Calif. Even in the silent era she tended to be typecast in such films as Ramona (1928) and The Loves of Carmen (1927); after sound, her accent limited her still further, though she starred in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). Finally sick of the Hollywood yoke, she returned to Mexico and helped establish the country's movie industry, notably with Maria Candelaria...
...backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair), and made some of her best movies, including Sadie Thompson (1928). Her career then faded, until her triumphant 1950 comeback as Sunset Boulevard's aging actress Norma Desmond. "You used to be big," the silent-screen star is told. "I am big," intones Swanson unforgettably. "It's the pictures that got small." Married six times, enthusiastic about health foods and natural cosmetics, maker and spender of millions, she never got small. In her final film role (Airport 1975), she portrayed herself. It was the role...