Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replied Tsosie. "Are you Samoan?" "No," he said again. "Then what are you?" she let out in a high pitched voice. "I'm American Indian," he answered. "Oh" and she grew silent. Then she looked at him and said very slowly. "You-speak-Eng-lish-ve-ry-well...
...machines are more banal than that. They do still make people uncomfortable, although that is passing with familiarity. Their use has become so widespread that callers no longer feel quite so much the instant of stage fright. Still, the tape on the end of the line, expectantly unreeling, silent as a director awaiting the audition, does intimidate. The caller feels ambushed, like one who has suddenly learned he is being bugged. He becomes more ... responsible for his words. They are not going to vanish into air. They can be replayed again and again, like the videotape of a fumble...
...Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made the Big Red S a hero worth cheering...
...continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor who works on Ellis Island, while her sightless sister forges a career, improbably, as a writer of silent-movie westerns...
This is a dramatic vocabulary rooted in the operatic purity of silent-film making; Schygulla uses it to create, with each film, a new chapter in the emotional biography of the modern European woman. A Love in Germany reveals Schygulla as a superb, fearless actress and an international star ready to take Hollywood. Wake the town, tell the people. Frighten the horses, even. -By Richard Corliss