Word: whisperingly
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...noon, and Sam Peckinpah is in a good mood when he arrives on the set. "I had half a can of beer for breakfast," he whispers, "and it tasted great!" Why does the director of so many he-man shoot-'em-ups whisper? No one has ever dared to ask, but as a technique it has its advantages. When Peckinpah whispers, people cup their ears and listen-or they may not be around for whisper No. 2. The mortality rate on the ordinary Peckinpah picture is about half that of lemmings in leap year...
...roller coaster. And Landiss's method of attaining these misplaced emotional peaks is awkward. It is as though someone told him the only thing an actor can do to increase intensity is talk faster or louder or both. Landiss fails to realize that in many scenes a well-placed whisper can be more effective than an ear-shattering, rapid-fire sequence of unintelligible lines. To make matters worse, Landiss's emphatic little "umphs" run over some of the most precious and meaningful lines in the entire play...
With that last word, his voice dropped to a self-conscious whisper. Guilt overcame him, guilt for the alias he felt inclined to present his wife. He recalled his childhood days when women on beaches were prohibited from exposing full thighs and shoulders, a memory which rendered "Oh! Calcutta!" one realized fantasy after another. Kenneth Tynan, the producer of the show when it first opened on Broadway, could have asked or hoped for no more, except an audience of 1649 more 68-year-olds who found the show something more than an evening's humorless, innocent diversion...
...refreshing to hear our President taking a moral stand on behalf of the innocent incarcerated in prisons, concentration camps and asylums in the U.S.S.R. [Feb. 21]?and stating his views out loud instead of in a cowardly whisper as suggested by some soft-minded politicians? Moral courage is mightier than all the atomic arsenals...
Crowded Lineup. Some other Cabinet-level officers may be tempted to whisper under their breath about Strauss. His nomination brings another powerful figure into the new Administration's increasingly crowded economic policy lineup. The man who appears to be getting crowded most is Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, the German-born Bendix Corp. president, who seemed to have been recruited by Carter for his drive and expertise in foreign commerce; he had been an effective international trade negotiator in the Kennedy Administration. Even before Strauss's nomination, Blumenthal's clout in the new Administration had appeared...