Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss. Above her loom massive gray factory walls with their vast mosaic of windows, painted-over green, cracked and dirty. Only one of the four black smokestacks exhales into the sky. The railroad tunnels that run beneath the building are empty, and the moaning central paint ovens have fallen silent...
...carves the slope with a surgeon's precision, hugging the fall line, darting through slalom gates with eyeblink speed. Down below they call him "the silent Swede," but up here Ingemar Stenmark is eloquent, communicating easily with the mountain. He knows what it will give him and what he must give in return. In his powdery wake, he leaves competitors a curt challenge: "I set the pace, and now you guys beat...
...whose idiosyncratic combination of spasticism and smoothness--which earned him his first taste of stardom while on the club circuit might still work if he hadn't taken the jack-of-all-trades route. But Steve the Screenwriter insisted of confronting film, while the Comedian must have observed in silent protest. The Screenwriter concocted an hour-and-a-half-long one-minute joke, and he undoubtedly ended up with the last and perhaps only laugh--the moviegoer certainly doesn...
...Students have the right to pray," school committee member Henrietta Attles said. "The silent meditation period they have now just does not give students a chance to really pray," she added...
East Boston students will not be permitted to leave the classroom if a prayer is being given. "They're just going to remain silent in their seats," Scarpa said...