Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone was whispering in the seat behind me. It was a passionate whisper, "Don't you see? It's the only possible explanation...
...some day occupy a hallowed place in the pantheon of high camp. This isn't your everyday Hollywood boo-boo; the film is downright perverse. For a couple of hours, two of the screen's best actors, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word love means any more...
Lisa has cause for worry. Only seven girls can be chosen for the Huntsville twirling line, and competition is tough. Her elder sister Susan was a Huntsville High twirler for two years. But then the unthinkable happened. She failed to make the cut. Friends whisper that she gained too much weight to make the line. It was traumatic. "It affected Susan's image of herself," says Dick Cording, the girls' sympathetic father, who is chairman of the philosophy department at nearby Sam Houston State University. As a result, he says, "we've talked a lot about handling...
Another returning letterman, Chuck Elliott at the number six position, heard barely a whisper from Amherst's Bill Halmi in his 15-8, 15-4, 15-6 victory...
Sitting lotus fashion on a small rug in his cottage, Khomeini these days receives a constant stream of Iranian visitors and inquisitive reporters. In a voice barely above a whisper, he issues unrelenting calls for a jihad (holy war) against the Shah and his replacement by a democratically elected Islamic republic, which Khomeini professes no interest in heading. He wants to reduce Western influence in Iran. The appointment of the new military government, he told TIME Paris Correspondent Sandy Burton last week, "will not change anything. Rather, it will intensify the unrest and strikes ... The goal of our people...