Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peace, shell-shocked, ravaged, yet innocently eerie. In the very best production of this work, the character of Kattrin has been likened to Aristophanes' character Peace, who, though raped and tortured by war, remains virtuous and beautiful. Fasolino's Kattrin speaks volumes in her muteness and screams and silent scream at the close of the play. It is she who salvages this production's otherwise disastrous rooftop scene...
Other means of dissent can get a point across adequately-listen before or after a presentation, leaflets, silent protest with posters letters to newspapers. Granted, such tactics do not have the immediately discernible, effect of radical disruptions. But they also lack their drawbacks: and, in the long run, they tend to prove more successful...
...windswept pastures of the Falkland Islands themselves. British troops are searching for and defusing the approximately 12,000 land mines that the Argentinians indiscriminately scattered along the expected path of the British attack. Large numbers of the mines will never be found, remaining as silent and deadly reminders of the irrevocable change that the war has brought to the islands. There are 4300 soldiers garrisoned on what has come to be known as "Fortress Falklands," and the troops, the Harrier jets, and Rapier anti-aircraft missiles are eloquent witness to the British determination to hold on to what they...
Reagan did not need to consult Teller personally or even through Keyworth; he could have learned the aged physicist's views by picking up a newspaper or magazine. Teller has been arguing for an antiballistic-missile system since the mid-1960s. He fell silent after the signing of the treaty banning such systems in 1972, a grievous mistake, in his opinion, but has taken up the cudgels again in a spate of articles during the past two years. His opinions, as summarized for TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson last week, dismiss contrary opinion as vigorously as ever...
...There's been no demands by people to do anything." he adds. "There was just a little silent demonstration a few weeks back when some new cruise missiles rolled in." That silent demonstration was the year's biggest story...