PAGE A20 Piercing the Silence The wall of secrecy that traditionally surrounded the Vatican's selection of a new archbishop has cracked in the speculation over who will succeed Cardinal O'Connor.
Bryan Stevenson, the director of EJI, said the organization plans to erect monuments, memorials and markers in the communities where the lynchings took place, as a way of piercing the silence and starting a conversation.
The movie began with the unmistakable, inimitable voice of Maya Angelou piercing the silence of my tiny one-bedroom apartment in Loz Feliz.
But he does intend, he said, to be as outrageous as necessary to pierce the silence.
Occasionally, a scream pierced the silence as someone heard news all had feared.
In the process, the child pierces the silence in the room with a short-lived cry.
The wail of sirens pierced the silence as the police helicopter came into view, dipping and ducking to examine the twisted trunk of the train.
Just as he was about to finish off the job with a two-foot putt, the honk of a Harpo Marx bicycle horn pierced the silence.
In these meetings and in interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Welts explained that he wants to pierce the silence that envelops the subject of homosexuality in men's team sports.
It is hard to think of an equivalent scenario in sport: fighting all the learned instincts of British fairness, the congregation waited to pierce the silence in the church of Roger, quietly guilty, perhaps, when they joined the chorus of adoration, like naughty monks and nuns.
