Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuses normal speech and her sexytiful singing voice together. As a result, many of the songs become ritualized, electronic storytelling, as if the world of "big science" and an African tribal society have collided. In "Langued' Amour." Anderson (using both her normal voice and vocoder) retells the Adam and Eve story over a haunting background of electronic conches, finally breaking into vocoder love song. Anderson directly addresses the listener-"What did the snake say? Yes! What was she saying? OK. I will tell you."-in order to give this storytelling impression...
Several taxi drivers appeared before City Council on the eve of the licensing commission meeting to voice over the medallion transfer. The Council responded by instructing the commission to put the deal on hold until the city manager can initiate a full investigation...
...seemed hard to believe. Soviet citizens knew Andropov was ill, but many, uneasy with the prospect of a new transition, believed reports that he was convalescing. So a guessing game began. Some Soviets thought that Vasili Kuznetsov, the oldest member of the ruling elite, might have died on the eve of his 83rd birthday. Others figured it was Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75, who had canceled an official visit to India a week earlier. But a worried Moscow housewife gave voice to the fear she shared with many of her compatriots: "It would be terrible if Andropov has died...
Five hockey players-two Canadians, two Austrians and an Italian-were dismissed on the eve of the competition for having had brief encounters with the National Hockey League. One of the Austrians not expelled was Richard Cunningham, 32, veteran of more than 300 games in the defunct World Hockey Association. On the computer terminals in the press room, Cunningham's occupation is listed as "philosopher...
MANY OF HISTORY'S great cataclysms, so it seems, have followed periods of extreme indulgence. The legendary decadence of Rome prior to the invasion of the barbarians, the opulence of the French court on the eve of the Revolution, the elegance of the ante-bellum South and the insouciance of Europe during the 1920's are all instances of a culture's last frenzy before the deluge Accurate or not, dozens of films, including movies as diverse as "Gone with the Wind," "Cabaret" and most recently "La Nuit de Varennes," have sought to document these moments, sometimes for memory...