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It never fails: As soon as the horde hears the words "Social Security," a silence falls.
The LAT 's "Column One" says that Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" ends years of silence about the horrors experienced by American soldiers in World War II.
By then we had made our covenant with silence, But in the first few days it was so still We listened to our breathing and were afraid.
In general, boycotts against works of the imagination as the primary focus of a political organization are suspect, whether it's the Catholic League against Dogma or the Brooklyn Museum, NOW against Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho , or gay activists against Silence of the Lambs , which is not to say that I don't think these things should be as vigorously debated as anyone cares to debate them, and in some cases more vigorously than that.
And indeed, USAT refers to the leading economies' "months of silence" about the crisis.