The class always went silent whenever I taught the classic IBM structured sales call.

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But always she was silent.

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The boldest silent acting always burrowed under the outlines of the story and added a layer of commentary, sometimes a dissonant layer.

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The butcher had been a good man, friendly to her mother, always offering a kind word and picking out the best cuts for her, but his wife had been mean and silent as she took the money, and sometimes she had kept it a little longer in her hand, staring at it, as if she thought it might be some kind of foreign currency.

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