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  • Beckett provided Keaton with a return to the silent era for the space of 25 minutes the film is utterly silent except for a brief moment, early on, when a woman on the street makes a "ssssh" noise, presumably directed at the audience.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • Beckett provided Keaton with a return to the silent era for the space of 25 minutes the film is utterly silent except for a brief moment, early on, when a woman on the street makes a "ssssh" noise, presumably directed at the audience.

    9/25: Samuel Beckett's Film; Christmas U.S.A.; The Purple Rose of Cairo Ed Howard 2007

  • Her "ssssh" would silence a room full of adults so she could hear what the littlest one in the room had to say.

    UUpdates - All updates 2008

  • Did YOU that one birth in the UK creates 160 times as much global warming effect as one in Ethiopia Don't tell Binyam Mohamed, ssssh! and that "the ONLY way out of poverty is to reduce carbon dioxide" All unchallenged by your trustworthy State Broadcaster.

    Biased BBC 2009

  • Did YOU that one birth in the UK creates 160 times as much global warming effect as one in Ethiopia Don't tell Binyam Mohamed, ssssh! and that "the ONLY way out of poverty is to reduce carbon dioxide" All unchallenged by your trustworthy State Broadcaster.

    Archive 2009-03-26 2009

  • You've not only given me a special fabric moment but also a chuckle about your prescription specs - you must have looked like some kind of trench coat Liberty lurker - ssssh, you've not seen me.

    the love of my life... Katy 2008

  • She remembers me taking her hand, pulling her to her feet, she remembers my voice telling everyone to stay calm and to use our mobile phones as torches, to stand up if we were not injured, to hold onto each other and to ssssh, don't panic, don't scream, because we needed to listen out for the cries of who was injured in the darkness and the smoke.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Rachel 2006

  • She remembers me taking her hand, pulling her to her feet, she remembers my voice telling everyone to stay calm and to use our mobile phones as torches, to stand up if we were not injured, to hold onto each other and to ssssh, don't panic, don't scream, because we needed to listen out for the cries of who was injured in the darkness and the smoke.

    Travelling with Fear Rachel 2006

  • It doesn't take a genius to see the huge risks with this current Home Office strategy of ignoring the warnings and going lalalala I don't want to think about it I have a Top Tony Target to bust, ssssh.

    Lazy and deceitful part 2: the cover-up Rachel 2006

  • It doesn't take a genius to see the huge risks with this current Home Office strategy of ignoring the warnings and going lalalala I don't want to think about it I have a Top Tony Target to bust, ssssh.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Rachel 2006

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