Word: speechlessness
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...About six months ago, a drunken Harvard student walked right into the back of the store," she says. "Without saying a word, he opened the cooler, and just urinated all over the gatorade section." As Josie says, "I didn't know what to do--I just stood there watching, speechless." And the funny thing is, she claims that it wouldn't have been so bad after all if it had been the first time something like that had happened. In fact, "that was the third time someone had pissed all over our store." Note to self: buy Gatorade...
...moment Jiang appeared on stage at Sanders was the instantaneous silence. It was as astonishing as the suddenness of the drumbeats that greeted Mandela, if not more so. After a hour of explanations from world-renowned professors, these experts, face-to-face with the real thing, suddenly became speechless, and so did everyone else...
Buffett is sitting in a darkened room, his eyes welling with tears. He's surrounded by other people who are crying--a Pittsburgh multiplex crowd experiencing Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Leaving the theater after the movie, Buffett is speechless, an unusual condition for him. "Whoa," he says finally. "Not a big popcorn movie." Soon he is talking seriously about thoughts the film stirred up. "My dad, J.D., was in the Army Air Corps, a crew chief on C-47 transports in China," he says. "He was on a flight over the Himalayas when fire broke out belowdecks...
From the start, his extraordinary athleticism, expressive grace, impeccable timing, endless inventiveness and genius for hard work set Chaplin apart. In 1910 he made his first trip to America, with Fred Karno's Speechless Comedians. In 1913 he joined Sennett's Keystone Studios in New York City. Although his first film, Making a Living (1914), brought him nationwide praise, he was unhappy with the slapstick speed, cop chases and bathing-beauty escapades that were Sennett's specialty. The advent of movies in the late 1890s had brought full visibility to the human personality, to the corporeal self that print...
...sitting in his room, and he said he had something for me. He pulled out the ring and got down on one knee. I said, `I guess I should stand up,'" she remembers. "It was a shock to see him on one knee, with a diamond ring. I was speechless, so he was like, `Please...