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If Clinton, as is now increasingly clear, was a time bomb waiting to explode, then Stephanopoulos helped smuggle him into the White House and muffled the ticking.
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.
It was the rush of those streams that inspired the Algonquin name Manitonga Sontana, Mountain of the Trembling Spirit, emitting its muffled boom when man disturbed its peace.
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.
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.