Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lassoing their characters or hanging themselves. Within the strictures and excesses of Method acting, most of them do just fine. Christopher Penn (Sean's brother) is good as a slow wit with a long fuse; Eileen Ryan (Sean's and Christopher's mother) plays their grandma as a silent witness against familial treachery. Masterson has a face and a talent worth watching. Walken, flashing Faginese charm across his splendidly wasted face, is a monster any son could find walking into his nightmares...
...Pope John Paul in a white robe and Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff in a prayer shawl, stood side by side in Rome's main synagogue for a moment of silent prayer. Then they joined in an enthusiastic embrace. The throng of 1,000 people packed into the ornate synagogue, 40 of whom were survivors of Nazi death camps, burst into thunderous applause. Some wept openly...
...huge crowd, the largest the Crimson has played before this season, fell silent...
...testimony before a House Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee, two New York City real estate executives told how they helped Marcos and his wife Imelda secretly acquire New York real estate. Faced with prosecution for contempt of Congress if they kept silent, Joseph and Ralph Bernstein described the complicated dealings of the Philippine first family, who allegedly hold three office buildings and an enclosed, multistory shopping mall in Manhattan, estimated to be worth some $350 million. Joseph Bernstein even recalled joining Mrs. Marcos on a midnight drive to a Wall Street building, where she went to gaze in admiration...
...disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness, a persistent undercurrent of anguish about the worth of what can be seen. It is the very reverse of academic art and the antithesis of illustration...