41.   Split screen techniques have been around since silent movies.

42.   Takeoffs on silent movies, foreign movies, operas, psychotherapy lost out in the ratings to Lawrence Welk.

43.   The actors, like those in silent movies, sometimes have to rely on overdramatic facial expressions for the images that will accompany the on-line text.

44.   The afternoon is now stored in my brain like scenes from a silent movie.

45.   That, Lustman said, makes it the only theater in the United State dedicated year-round to showing silent movies.

46.   The early silent movies derived their Southern-sympathizer plots from the hundreds of novels and plays written in that vein.

47.   The piece moves with the jerky rhythms of a very old silent movie and the jerky plottings of a science-fiction tale.

48.   The son of a silent movie maker, Adamson was executive vice president of Independent-International Pictures Corp., based in East Brunswick, N.J.

49.   The walls of the Worcester galleries are filled with lovely women looking out at you, many with a wide-eyed stare reminiscent of the facial expressions in silent movies.

50.   Their opposition of ethical genius and decadent depravity comes from the preachy world of silent movies.