Word: whisperer
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...with snowplows and such, 12 in. of squashy snow, on top of 7½ in. from the week before, immobilized the Government more effectively than SMERSH could have done. Most Government employees were given Monday off and allowed to come in late Tuesday. Congressional debate dropped to a somnolent whisper when only a ninth of the House and a third of the Senate battled through the drifts to Capitol Hill...
Sandra. "These shadows . . . the sifting of ashes of a dead past." Thus whisper the winds of melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
...allies, last week marked a more ominous turning point. After a Christmas truce that was not a truce, after a four-day New Year cease-fire in which the firing did not cease, after a suspension of U.S. bombing raids over North Viet Nam that brought no whisper of response to President Johnson's intensive, month-long peace campaign, it was all too clear that the holiday and its fleeting hopes for peace were over...
...Bloom elicits just the right amount of love from Burton. And Burton, when he sits waiting to be interviewed for a job, when he makes contact with the Communist agent, and when he looks down from the Berlin wall at Smiley, is superb. All he has to do is whisper, "I have to go early in the morning," and he has a love scene...
...Dominican army in 1963 and both men took asylum in Puerto Rico, the split grew wider. After the April civil war erupted, Miolán publicly called for intervention to "prevent the genocide of the defenseless population of our capital," and later he launched an anti-Bosch whisper campaign throughout the country...