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The cockpit voice recorder captured the sounds of the passenger assault muffled by the intervening cockpit door.
You know what it was like in there.You've listened to me so many hoursdepicting aftermaths of my blunt shame.The place had been jammed, everyone drunk,the cellar had kept the explosion in--pillowed, muffled, a brief hot thudwithin thick earth-sunk concrete walls.But oh my God what it had done.I crawled back into the rubblesearching for her, until I sawthe work I had to do now.What had happened had happened,I'd never know how.
At Jean-Paul Gaultier, everybody was muffled up in boots and long skirts with caps and sweaters, hoping to suggest the Left Bank in 1948.
Or was it entombment in museums, being surrounded by the work of nonaction painters, that muffled his force and left him dead on the wall?
Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.