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Word: hissing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliberately inflict physical pain upon me for no apparent reason, I just say, "It's cool." Yet as an undergraduate at Harvard, I have come across a few things that make me want to kill, or, at the very least, hurt. The most horrid of these is the Harvard Hiss...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...fact, the earth seems to be reclaiming this abused chunk for its own purposes. The maples and sycamores look healthy, grasses and wild flowers are thick and high. Grasshoppers hiss. A flock of wild turkeys has moved in, as well as a pack of coyotes and some deer. "It's amazing," says the former mayor, "all these yellow flowers! They were never here before." The wild growth, however, poses a problem: vandals, looters and arsonists can hide from the security patrols more easily. But that may be remedied. "I believe the state of Missouri," says Leistner, "is looking into defoliating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...tickets to the Centrum shows, head down to Rhode Island's Providence Civic Center. Tina Turner plays Providence on July 25 and Foreigner on July 27. Up north at New Hampshire's Kingston Fairgrounds, the southern California headbanger band Motley Crue will get vulgar, hiss, and even play some songs on August...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Entertainment is Up When the Lights are Down | 6/23/1985 | 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 »

...that the TV networks call docudramas. These video narratives focus on actual events and real people, but often include invented dialogue, characters and even entire scenes. Dozens of docudramas have been made, on subjects ranging from the history of American slavery, in Roots, to the perjury trial of Alger Hiss in last year's Emmy Award-winner Concealed Enemies. Many have dealt with personalities, living or dead, who still figure in national political debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Dangers of Docudrama | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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