Word: chime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which rise dark and gorgeous in every direction. But to the businessmen who brought the railroad through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields and the McCoys, whose family war a century ago became freakish folk legend, even...
...authentic human spirit. She also makes me laugh." And the smile in Hepburn's voice breaks into the chime of an unself-conscious laugh?for, surely, the woman being described is not only Ethel Thayer but Katharine Houghton Hepburn...
...taking its title and cue from one of those schlock-romance magazines, but transcending them, as the images cut through the melodic hypnotism: "You keep rollin' around my head/like a magnum that repeats." As the song fades, the drummer pummels an incessant jungle-cum-Bo Diddley beat, the guitars chime in, and then suddenly the musical avalance cascades out of hearing. This portends of things to come. The first side is tame, love-centered pop; this closing hints of the underlying energy to surface later...
Edna's healing power develops after a disastrous automobile causes her to cross the brink of death. While on the operating table, she seems to hover over herself, watching the proceedings. Then she relives the crash. As the windshield shatters, geometeric patterns radiate in her field of vision. Bells chime. Light diffusing from a central source creates a tunnel. Shadowy forms of people she vaguely remembers seem to talk to her and guide her toward the light. In the distance a figure stands facing her, casually slinging a jacket over his shoulder. It's her husband, who died...
...ever been available there officially. This does not mean, however, that a Soviet citizen under the age of 30 has not heard Back in the U.S.S.R., with its wicked inversion of some old Chuck Berry sentiments and its slap-happy political satire. For that matter, young Muscovites could probably chime in on a chorus of Let It Be. Officially, there is little imported rock or pop music available. Unofficially, Moscow is like Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything you want...