Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech some members of the audience commented on Kirkland's outspokenness. "A lot of people think Kirkland is under the gun for getting them in trouble in the elections," one observer said. "Now he's the first person to come out against all these cuts--the Democrats are all silent. I think he's trying to generate support, to build a base," he added...
...each of the drivers' other demands, the University remained silent. Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, repeatedly refused comment on whether the University would honor the drivers' fundamental request--that Harvard recognize their right to unionize...
...best now, after so much has been set forth, is, perhaps, to be silent; not to add the trivia of literary, sociological debate, to the unspeakable...
...lowlifes dance to their own ricochet rhythms. But when it comes to complicating and resolving a plot, Tesich falls back on the conventions of melodrama. Around the soft center of Daryll and Tony's affair, he has woven a crazy quilt of stereotypes-the cold-eyed killer, the silent accomplice, the wealthy parents, the deranged Vietvet. At the climax-a reprise of Equus-resourceful Daryll does what every dumb thriller hero or heroine must do: wanders into an ominous abandoned building. His assailant is even dumber: he is intent on killing Daryll but won't shoot the horses...
Using the photo-cinematic method, Gifford composes his novel as a carefully arranged series of short takes moving between past and present, memory and event, reality and hallucination. It's literary impressionism, splicing silent and often motionless pictures together into a frame containing only the essential, electric excerpts of life. These panels, the charged, memorable exposures of life in Franz Hall's mind, are rendered in 85 well-cropped and vivid chapters. Two whole adjoining chapters read as follows...