Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oppressive heat. Scalding sunlight. Not a whisper of a breeze. The place is a vacation resort near Marrakesh in Morocco, but the guests' garden patio might almost be a military compound under siege. Its protective wall is topped with shards of implanted glass and barbed wire. Palm fronds are silhouettes against an implacably blue sky, and in the distance one hears the eerie, insinuative call of the muezzin, summoning the faithful of Islam to prayer...
...refuge for battered women. Tabankin is here to find out how well the VISTA program is working. McGraw is here to learn. As reporters look on, she speaks with the organizer of the home for a few minutes, and the first time she raises her voice above a whisper it is to ask, aghast, "Do these men really stay in these women's lives?" She is horrified...
...performances, an experience that he shrugs off: "No response at all would be worse." Once, in Vienna, a Stockhausen score called for him to strike a row of keys with his arm and hold them down for 30 seconds. As Pollini remained bent motionless over the keyboard, a whisper came from the first row: "He is exhausted...
...situation and laugh at the position he finds himself in," Steiner notes. Perhaps that sense of humor is what prompted Bok, in a beige three-piece suit and surrounded by 75 screaming protesters demanding that he divest Harvard holdings in corporations operating in South Africa, to smile demurely and whisper to a reporter: "It's just another day in the life of a university president...
...fell to the floor, his blood streaking the white altar cloth. He was mortally wounded, struck in the heart by a single fragmenting .22-cal. bullet. The gunman ran to a small red car and sped away. A nun who bent over to kiss the dying prelate heard him whisper, "May God have mercy on the assassins...