Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAWYER stood up on the steps of the theater. The theater was dark, silent, the show was running. The picketeers listened to his rising voice--trembling with indignation at times--pointing, pounding, and they looked up at him and listened, eager for him to stop, eager to respond. He was talking about freedom...
...copy of Hustler as evidence, impounded his books. They wouldn't let anyone else inside. The DA offered me immunity if I cooperated with them. After all, I was the press. They handcuffed Hitler, and the cop was reading him his rights: "You have the right to remain silent...
...what about when you are outnumbered," a voice shot up from the melee. The mob became silent...
...their children's shoulders and sobbed into handkerchiefs. Groups of schoolchildren, reared on his all-embracing national legend, waved small Yugoslav flags with awe in their eyes. At the edge of the crowd, a youth knelt on an open newspaper, clasped his hands and moved his lips in silent prayer. "He was somebody very close, like in my own family," said Nikola Margis, 68, a craftsman with a white mustache, who had waited for ten hours to pay his respects at the lying-in-state. "For 35 years we lived together, and we had only good things from...
Transit has much in common with the archetypal "old stories" of love and tragedy that form our literary past. It's almost schematic in outline, obeying some huge Sophoclean unity of thirty years' tragedy. Hazzard carefully constructs the work to fit this ancient paradigm and moves with silent and relentless force along a cosmic plan of the way things are in the world, and should be in a novel...