Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governess, Nan Hughes gives the best performance of the evening. Her clear, beautiful voice and effectively expressed character speak of a matronly yet passionate nature. She doesn't need to use extraneous actions to reveal her character. In one remarkably clever bit of business, the governess narrates a silent film in which her two young charges--the young princesses--meet and repel an undesirable man. With her magnificent voice leading the miming of the other actors behind a screen lit by flashing light, we momentarily forget that anyone else has to sing. Unfortunately, we can't forget for long...
...Silent Movie (1976): Just a cameo...
...invited to talk privately with Andropov in two hours, the Americans then moved on toward a large portrait of Brezhnev, draped in black, that had been set up on a table just beyond the receiving line. Nearly every delegation had stopped to face the portrait for a moment of silent contemplation. But Bush and Shultz, either deliberately or because they were absorbed by the prospect of the forthcoming meeting with Andropov, barely paused to glance...
Johnson bragged crudely about many liaisons after his 1934 marriage to Lady Bird Taylor, but about Alice he was as silent, Caro writes, "as a young man in love." And uncharacteristically rash: Marsh, the owner of several Texas newspapers and one of Johnson's most influential patrons, was someone he could hardly afford to cross. Luckily for Lyndon, Marsh never caught on. The author quotes a witness to the affair: "That was the only time-the only time-in Lyndon Johnson's whole life that he was pulled off the course that he had set for himself...
...affairs in which he was a participant. His conduct at Longlea was striking. One [mutual friend], seeing Lyndon and Alice together for the first time, says he could hardly believe his eyes. As Alice sat reading [Edna St. Vincent] Millay in her quiet, throaty voice, he recalls, Johnson sat silent, not saying a word, just drinking in the beautiful woman with the book in her hands. 'I don't believe that Lyndon ever held still for listening to poetry from anyone else,' he says. And although Johnson generally ate, even at Washington dinner parties...