Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early and methodical organization was the key to this year's New Right campaign. In its effort to get the Silent Majority to roar, the alliance made extensive and artful use of direct mail techniques. By marketing their cause directly to supporters, the alliance circumvented what it considers to be the liberal-dominated media. Says Viguerie: "The left had a monopoly of all the microphones of the country. Never before has the right been able to bypass the evening news...
...response was nonpolemical, non-strident," said one official privately. But the U.S. was uncertain whether the militants finally had transferred custody of the hostages to the Iranian government, as some unconfirmed reports suggested at week's end. After so many disappointments, the gun-shy American side was keeping silent about the prospects-even as it prepared another message for the Algerians to take back to Tehran...
...clown. Eventually the two personas merge; so powerful is Shingen's spirit that merely by acting naturally the thief begins to duplicate his actions, almost to think his thoughts. When Shingen's son, Katsuyori, eager to assume his dead father's power by exposing the double, challenges the compulsorily silent double at a large meeting, Kurosawa doesn't cut to the double's face for the comic reaction of a man stuck in the spotlight who doesn't know what to say. Instead, he shoots from behind the double; there is a silence and then he responds, surely as Shingen...
...shoppers, knowing none of this, remain silent and still until the music fades. Chimes signal the start of the business day, and holiday carols lilt over the sound system. Women who have finished their coffee and turned to the turtlnecks and ties dart toward other departments. And the waitress wheels the cart away...
...Exactly Silent Night...