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...Albert see Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer flutter down and perch behind the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Cents Wurf | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

Children squeal and flutter into schools where the poor are taught poorly and the rich look forward to careers in international banking. Men and women in nearly equal numbers take their stations at jobs that have less and less to do with making things and more with providing "services." (A service manufactures happiness for the sedentary.) Messengers deliver messages, cleaners clean, lawyers bill. The pace is heady, overwhelming, if one does not include cities like Youngstown, Ohio, where the steel industry has been nailed shut for the past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...Make it quick, Old Man. I've got a date with my girl." You listen to him swing from the bottle and feel a white sheet flutter down around your neck. You look at the sheet, the curious bloodstains...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...first wave of CDs featured orchestral blockbusters to show off the digital sound's wide dynamic range. The true test of recording technology, however, is the piano. Wow, flutter and tape hiss--ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced, if not entirely eliminated, with CDs. And while flat-earthers may still decry what they hear as a clinical, metallic quality in digital CD recordings, such reservations will disappear as recording engineers adapt their techniques to the demands of the new medium. The best of the current CD piano releases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Things in Small Packages | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

After a fast start, helped along by the somewhat diminished "roaring failwind," Mollerus's boat countered Yale's and Princeton's flutter's increases in the stroke cadence--with bursts of power that left the Crimson in control...

Author: By Marie B. Morres, | Title: Navy, Princeton, Yale Outstroke Crimson | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

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