Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismal records in opposing the war. They passed the Tonkin Gulf Rseolution in 1965 which enabled President Johnson to expand the war. They watered down the Cooper-Church amendment and voted down the Hatfield-McGovern plan. They continue to authorize and appropriate funds for the war with scarcely a whisper of opposition...
Harris' speech handicap makes it impossible for Ken Hughes to offer any vision of Cromwell the private man, since domestic scenes have to be played at less than a shout, and a hoarse whisper is the only alternative to a shout that Harris can come up with. I stress this failing not to slur Harris (indeed, Cromwell by the end of his career was probably hoarse too!): rather, I bring it up as a factor crucial in explaining why the ideological bias of the movie-strongly pro-Cromwell-fails to work convincingly in actual dramatic interchange...
...identify with Agathon, not because he is a fashionable anti-hero, but because he approaches life with such zest that his enthusiasm is contagious. He cannot contain himself when he sees an old lady taking a shit in the woods, and has to come up behind her and whisper, "God bless you!" His reaction to death is "Whooee am I scared!" He tries to think of some last, solemn, sententious word, and comes up with "Cocklebur...
...ornamental quality of the light; golden splotches. The half-drawn, cracked shades. His face, his shadowy eyes. We whisper to each other, "I love you . . ." I hear myself saying these words clearly enough. Am I drugged? Am I like my mother in the home, drugged and heavy-lidded and lying? But my lover whispers these words and he is not drugged. Our bodies, wound together, are heavy and very warm. I love this boy. I don't love this boy. I am loved by him . . .? I can't believe that I am loved by him, I am not loved...
...last week, however, the consummate hawk was acting like a careful dove. In his speeches, Dayan was saying openly what other Israeli officials would only whisper privately: that Is rael should return to the Jarring talks in spite of the missiles. Dayan even suggested an Israeli pullback at Suez so that the canal could be opened again as a guarantee of peace...