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...typically unattainable way. Two men—one old, one young—walk in, and he imagines them to be kindred spirits, sorely interpreting their departure ten minutes later as a personal snub. He wishes for a female companion to discuss with him the black-and-white, soundless film in this quiet, dark room, hidden inside the busiest museum in the busiest city, a tangle of manmade structures and concepts...
...Part of the vessel's charm is that it offers an underwater encounter with no need for heavy oxygen cylinders or uncomfortable mouthpieces and masks. Better still, the motor is virtually soundless, leaving sea creatures undisturbed and preserving a sense of the exotic. It won't take you long to get a feel for the acceleration and steering, and you won't need brakes: the coral is low-lying, and there's nothing to bump into apart from other sub-scooters (although there's little chance of that with scuba-diving guides pointing the way). Sure, the sub-scooter...
...Nguyen said, shaking his head. “Unbelievable.”What Nguyen could not believe, the crowd could still not grasp. Just one point earlier, down a match point, 10-9, Nguyen had persevered carefully through a forty-shot rally that had the crowd breathless and soundless.“It was that way the entire match—either someone was being broken or breaking right back,” Nguyen said. “We were pretty much used to it by then, desensitized to all the momentum shifts.”For Nguyen...
...arms flail in an exuberant choreography. Soon the bell for lunch will summon a well-ordered procession to the community store for a hot meal, the teachers will retreat to their homes for an hour of down time, and the classrooms sit empty on the edge of the desert, soundless except for the murmur of wind...
...again. “‘You did! I even have pictures,’ I said. ‘And I’ll make it public that you named your dog Pythagoras...’ “Priscilla opened her mouth and gave a few soundless gulps. “‘And that you couldn’t get a date to the freshman fall dance, so you had to take your cousin...’ “‘Okay, fine!’ she said in complete consternation...