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...Herald exposing Brady’s apparent anti-Bay State leanings. This is a matter of the utmost importance to members of Red Sox nation. If Brady is the victim of a witch-hunt, he can take solace in the tragic demonization of Alger Hiss before...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Ball Cap Betrayal! | 5/6/2007 | See Source »

Riot cops looked on attentively as the loud, rowdy crowd surged, shouting slogans outside the barred iron gates of a sprawling Parisian townhouse. Tension in the street gradually increased until the inevitable explosion shook the entire street - a detonation preceded by an eerie silence punctuated only by the hiss of thousands drawing a breath in anticipation. But the screaming outside the French Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Socialists Celebrate, For Now | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...honor, only to find that she disdains the half-breed beauty who has saved his life. (She is played by Blanca Estela Pavón, Infante's love interest in six of his late '40s, who died in a plane crash in 1949, at 23). "You dirty Indian," Silvia hisses. "What do you know about love?" The Mexican audience knew to hiss back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

...place in a Baptist church on Sunday morning. Sadly, Oldham and company’s amazing performances are a little less compelling than they might be because of “Summer”’s threadbare production values. Unintended instrument distortion, a persistent hiss, and echoing vocals all evidence that these recordings were made in hole-in-the-wall clubs with lousy sound systems.   Some will say that this “dirty” production is an integral part of the Oldham experience: it accurately represents the experience of watching a show in tiny...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer in the Southeast | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...receiver, which is connected to your sound system. Since it?s not sending audio over FM like those in-car transmitters but rather a 2.4GHz Bluetooth signal, it can maintain a nice full sound at distances up to 30 feet. You can hear a little bit of digital hiss at the high end, but only when you?re nearby-near enough to just plug your iPod directly into your stereo. This is for the times when you are, say, working in the kitchen. You want full control over your tunes but can?t be hovering around the living-room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logitech Wireless Music System for iPod | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

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