Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what about a seat in the U.S. Senate? Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards popped that very proposal to his wife Elaine last week. "Wanna go to Washington?" he asked her. "Are you kidding," she replied. "What for?" "To take Ellender's seat in the Senate." Openmouthed, speechless response. Fadeout...
...Shouts of "Salaud!" (bastard) fill the theater when former Premier Guy, Mollet is shown defending his policy of keeping draftees in the army for 30 months instead of the legal term of 18 months. "When the lights go on at the end of the film, you sit there crushed, speechless, heartsick," wrote Critic Jean Planchais in Le Monde. "It is a film that makes you sick," concluded Henri de Turenne of L'Express. "Sick at heart. Sick to the stomach...
...leaves most of its potential sources of humor undeveloped. The teach-in scene is a good example. It's full of sound and fury, but has to its credit only one sustained joke. (Nixon, told that the stage will be stormed with the first lie he tells, is struck speechless.) And the show's casual direction doesn't help any. A review should move fast and furious, blackouts should be punchy, and some traveling music never hurts, but Nixon!'s blackouts are more like periodic sessions of silent meditation...
...walking into a totally pitch black room and someone turns on a million-watt light bulb. It was probably the most beautiful, the most painful experience I've ever had. Look at it like this. Christians pray to Jesus and if Jesus walked into their rooms they would be speechless. When I walked into the visiting room and saw Malcolm. I was speechless. But in a matter of minutes, it was almost as if his soul merged with mine. He taught me that we must seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. Knowledge is the greatest weapon...
...issue of whether the Council would approve $1500 for voter registration promotion came up at the same time as a complaint that the elevator in the main voter registration location had been broken for over a year, Smith came up with a proposal which left the other councillors speechless. "What I think y'all ought to do," he drawled, "is to take the money it normally would have cost to fix the elevator, let the elevator stay broken, and apply it to the $1500 we're asking...