Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern film style, Aria blends two old forms: classical opera and the silent film. Both discovered unique languages to convey emotions; both eschewed irony for intensity; both declined in the 1920s -- opera with Puccini's death, silent movies with the coming of sound. So a headlong romantic like Ken Russell will embrace opera on film like a first, lost love. For him, opera is performed at peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their...
...Python sketch in which a man meets a policeman in a park and tells him his overcoat has been stolen, but he didn't see who took it. Both men realize there's little hope of ever finding the coat, and they stand around for a few seconds in silent resignation. Finally, one asks the other, "Do you want to go over to my place, then?" The other responds affirmatively, and both leave. End of sketch...
...Harvard baseball team, dizzied by recent success in EIBL action, found its drive toward a league title unexpectedly slowed by the Penn pitching staff yesterday at Soldiers Field. The Crimson bats fell silent as the Quakers swept the doubleheader...
...down the aisles selling bingo cards. The players have set up their cartons of cigarettes alongside their Bic lighters, their coffee thermoses, their good-luck coffee mugs, their plastic cups of French fries, and their little signs that indicate what bus group they are with. They are mostly silent, hunched over their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo!" They scurry up, to a smattering of applause, to the platform in the center of the room to get their cash. If they don't scurry fast enough the other players...
Words overheard at a New Age spirit ceremony? No, the silent prayer is the product of the Pentagon Meditation Club, a group that meets at lunchtime every Friday to foment inner peace and goodwill on earth. So far 75 Defense Department employees have taken part, from copier technicians to a Navy captain. "Be all that you can be" was surely never meant like this...