Word: chime
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...show begins amid the banal frivolity of a beer party. A group of the Grey Lady's giddy friends have come in to guzzle Budweiser and Ballantine's ale. These are not puppets, but men and women wearing decadent, citified masks. At the sound of a funeral chime, which is actually two lead pipes clanged together by the agent of fate at the side of the stage, the beer cans are whisked away. The guests leave and the stage is occupied by a puppet father and mother and a masked...
HARVARD Faculty meetings used to be cordial, rather intimate affairs a few years ago. Convened beneath the portraits and statuettes of the tiny Faculty room in University Hall, the meetings began after a short tea and cookie session for early arrivals. An ornate chime clock hung at the side of the room and, on striking the magical hour of 6 p.m., called down the President's gavel on whoever happened to be speaking and brought an immediate adjournment...
...lean blond youth raised a bottle high, sipped of the red wine laced with acid, and said dreamily: "Canceled? We're not canceled. This time the chime is in rhyme, the sounds are all around." Apprehensive local officials, backed by court orders, had prevented some of the biggest names in the world of rock-Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone-from performing at the Powder Ridge Ski area near Middlefield, Conn. Undaunted, some 20,000 youngsters turned the reckless affair into a cheerily noisy "people festival...
HARVARD Faculty meetings used to be cordial, rather intimate affairs a few years ago. Convened beneath the portraits and statuettes of the tiny Faculty room in University Hall, the meetings began after a short tea and cookie session for early arrivals. An ornate chime clock hung at the side of the room and, on striking the magical hour of 6 p.m., called down the President's gavel on whoever happened to be speaking and brought an immediate adjournment...
...girls start out the door. "Got everything you want?" he asks. "Yes, thanks," they chime and giggle...