Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes before 10 on Friday mornings, the marble corridors of the Supreme Court building's main floor echo with the clatter of handcarts being pushed toward the well-guarded main conference room next door to the Chief Justice's office. The carts contain petitions for certiorari (requests for review, the normal means by which most cases reach the court), briefs, transcripts, memos from clerks, notebooks-every Justice's file on virtually every case that may come up during the taxing all-day session. It usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material...
...privacy. Editor Tattilo is unrepentant. "After all," she said last week, "Jackie knew that photographers have shot at that particular location more than once. If she didn't want to be photographed, she should not have exhibited herself." Others, more concerned with taste and privacy, might echo Turin's La Stampa, owned by Fiat Chief Gianni Agnelli, a longtime friend of Jackie's: "Italy would have done better not to publish those pictures...
Thus Perón limped rather than strode back into Argentine history. Indeed, the return had none of the historical impact he so badly wanted and needed. There was no echo of Napoleon's dramatic escape from exile on Elba. Moreover, if Perón had planned to present himself as the instant solution to the troubles of Argentina and then ride off into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return...
...Dallesandro's (and Warhol's) popular trademarks--while she is a turbulent mass of emotions, insecurities, and hurts, always seeking his support without success. Her pleading queries--"Do ya think I look allright" or "Did ya think I was a good actress, Joey?"--find no response except their own echo; Joey's adrenalin seems to run only in certain prone positions...
Beck is also one of the few guitarists outside the blues genre to work extensively with the slide. His slide work matches the best non-blues efforts of Duane Allman, the master of rock slide guitar. He combines it most often with echo or vibrate to fill out, and occasionally picks with the slide itself for a thin sound that adds variety...