Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporter persists. Won't anyone just chat about the mood of the campaign? The room falls silent...
Following Highway 57 as it winds to the north and west and then turns south, you can see the shipyard across the bend of the lake, its giant cranes silent. The business district comes before the bridge, and if you can see through the yellow and white smoke which the steel plant belches 24 hours a day, you can recognize the main street. In Lorain they call it Broadway, and some of the stores have been here 50 years or more, residents of the town long before Ford built the giant plant in 1966. Ford makes its "midsize" Thunderbird...
...Seven Storey Mountain appeared in American bookshops. Within weeks the autobiography became the most unlikely bestseller in American history-600,000 copies in the original clothbound edition. The author, Thomas Merton, was a young Roman Catholic convert who had scuttled a promising literary career to seek the austere and silent cloister of a Trappist monastery. But the career pursued him. At the time of his death in 1968 at the age of 53, the monk who dwelt in a hermitage at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky had become the most celebrated religious recluse in the Western world...
...woman relationship, and serves as a metaphor for the personal film maker in a tawdry art-industry. But Isabelle, in Every Man, exists simply to endure: to suffer the indignities of venal clients, and to survive with her mystery intact. She is a modern, unsentimental version of the silent-screen innocent who is noble not because of what she does but because of what men do to her. She is touched - indeed, pawed and probed - but never moved. And that is her revenge on the male of the species...
...completing Edwin Drood; he declines, but later writes a similar story of duality and the changing tales of good and evil; he calls it Miss or Mrs.? Other attempts are made by lesser authors-and next to the Master what author is not diminished? In the '20s, a silent movie is produced, and in 1935, Claude Rains stars in a film that seems to have been made in gothic twilight...