Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even by Italian standards, the intensity tends to get out of hand, particularly in the otherwise compelling performance of Giancarlo Giannini as the son. Scarcely a ciao can be spoken without a soulful stare, a strangled sob or an eloquently twitching nose. The cool restraint of Catherine Deneuve, which on other occasions can seem maddeningly vacuous, here supplies a welcome relief. She is a fetching brunette in this film. Playing Giannini's sister, she floats through all the gnashing and weeping with a fragile and captivating serenity...
...Take two aspirins and call me in the morning." Those familiar words, spoken as often by jesting laymen these days as by doctors, still contain more than a grain of truth. Some 75 years after its introduction, aspirin remains the world's leading painkiller, used for easing aches of every type, from headache to hangover, arthritis to athlete's elbow...
Dollars-and-cents logic is irrelevant when discussing the willful termination of human life [July 4]. The taxpayer has spoken. I will no longer be an accomplice to murder. More money for contraception, not I e more for abortion...
Indeed, as the prosecution struggled to build a case against the two nurses in U.S. District Court in Detroit, local press reports made it seem increasingly unlikely that the shy and soft-spoken young women would ever be convicted...
Even more notably, Luscomb has gone ahead and acted upon her beliefs, from fighting racial prejudice to outwitting the State Department in order to visit the People's Republic of China she so admires. Many people write, argue or theorize. Florence Luscomb has acted instead. And actions always have spoken louder than words