Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rally his conservative core constituency. Even though the Executive Branch has no official constitutional role in the amendment process, Reagan endorsed a version of the proposal that would have permitted spoken prayer in classrooms. When conservative Republican Orrin Hatch drew up an alternative proposal permitting only silent prayer, correctly arguing that it would have a better chance of passage, Reagan pressured him into backing down...
...been called the secret disease because the progression is slow, steady and silent. Gradually, over a period of many years, atherosclerosis chokes off the flow of life-sustaining blood. The disease, resulting from the buildup of fibrous material, or plaque, in the arteries, has been killing people for centuries. Scientists have found plaque in the arteries of an Egyptian mummy dating from approximately 100 B.C. Leonardo da Vinci described atherosclerosis in his Dell'Anatomia, identifying it as the cause of a "slow death without any fever" that afflicts the elderly. It was not until this century that scientists began...
...know. We're going to New York tomorrow." What about tonight? And he says, "I don't know. I don't even know if anyone's home. If I call, they'll say no for sure." He laughs, then is silent. "You game?" he asks...
...Hampshire could be the Tom Jones of the American '80s." Same director (Tony Richardson), same teeming fresco of endearing eccentrics, same Rabelaisian appetite for sex as the main course in the banquet of life, same giddy mixture of the farcical and the funereal, same pilfering of every silent-comedy trick from fast-motion camerabatics to actors who step out of character to wink knowingly at the audience...
DIED. William Powell, 91, suave actor whose resonant voice and easygoing elegance made him the movies' pre-eminent American gentleman; in Palm Springs, Calif. His silky good looks and pencil-thin mustache first got him typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow...