Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's posture of protesting the crackdown in Poland but remaining virtually silent on the human rights violations in the Soviet Union risks sending the wrong signal. It implies that the United States is only selectively concerned with human rights, thus putting no pressure on the Soviet Union to liberalize at home. Only loud protest by American citizens can spur the Reagan Administration to speak out. Tonight, at Holyoke Center, that protest can begin...
...Kiddies don't have to pray!" protest the bill's sponsors. The silent moment is "to be used solely at the discretion of the individual student," assures the legislation in a clever but unsatisfactory nod to the First Amendment...
...their ignorant savior. In Heart of Glass (1976), a mountaintop savant predicts the fall of a small village's glass industry; panic and madness ensue. Herzog paints his pictures in colors as vivid as dream life and instructs his actors to proceed with the elegant gravity of silent-film stars. Aguirre, Kaspar and Heart of Glass are three solitary landmark films of the past decade...
...hidden sub, which apparently was making a desperate attempt to break through the nets, drew back and lay silent and deep, about 230 ft. below the surface and only 600 ft. from a popular beach at Arsta. As naval divers plunged into the water to examine the damaged nets, a submarine salvage ship examined the sea floor with its underwater cameras. It reportedly found nothing...
Begin was well prepared and did not waste any time. He was brutally frank as he discussed each issue in Sadat's paper. Sadat remained silent until Begin derided the idea of Israel's paying reparations for use of the occupied lands. Then he interrupted, and a hot argument took place. Begin rejected the idea that his nation should pay for the Egyptian oil being pumped at that moment to Israel. Sadat was incensed. They began arguing about who had conquered whom, and I had to intercede to say that neither was claiming that the other represented a defeated nation...