Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heat is a silent killer. As a person's temperature rises into a range of 104° to 106°, the brain swells and thinking becomes fuzzy. Gradually, the body becomes dehydrated, losing important electrolytes and the ability to cool itself. Then the blood flows sluggishly, and kidneys and other major organs begin shutting down; eventually the victim sinks into a coma and is susceptible to cardiac arrest...
...fair-haired virgin in an old dark house. De Palma knows all about this. His camera glides down corridors and through rooms as elegantly as a downhill racer with murder on his mind. His actors of ten move at an otherworldly pace that recalls the stylized slowness of silent movies-especially in a wordless sequence that lasts almost half an hour. He builds suspense through the use of the unsuspected detail: a hand picking up a glove, a gleaming doorknob, an empty pair of shoes...
...President tacitly indicated that the U.S. would be silent about Chinese military moves along its 480-mile border with Viet Nam, short of outright war. The Chinese keep 250,000 to 300,000 Vietnamese troops occupied along that border. Hua backed U.S. efforts to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan and promised Carter that the Chinese would not question U.S. moves in the Middle East. He expressed "very, very strong" support for American efforts to acquire military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia as a counterweight to Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf region...
...recent months Soviet authorities have arrested key Christian leaders and clamped down on the religious activities of believers. Is this the beginning of a purge reminiscent of Stalin's and Khrushchev's antireligious campaigns? If we in the West remain silent, it could...
...growing extremism in the West Bank has isolated or intimidated longtime advocates of communal peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. In his quiet Ramallah apartment, Aziz Shahadeh, a lawyer since 1936, reflects on recent changes in the two communities. "I always thought that there was a silent majority of moderates among us, as there was among the Jews," he says. "Now the extremists are so powerful on both sides that the moderates have hushed their voices. Some day, there will be a catastrophe here, a real massacre...