Word: indistinct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under fire. Watching the destruction of East Beirut now is like watching in horror as a neighbor and his house are blown to bits. I managed to telephone one friend who had spent the night in a cellar under intense bombardment. The line was scratchy and the voice indistinct. It simply repeated the word 'hell.' Then the line went dead...
...were 700 American breweries; now there are only 48. If trends continue, the top five companies (AnheuserBusch, Schlitz, Miller, Pabst and Coors) will have about 85% of the beer market by 1985. Traditionalists are full of memories of things Pabst, and no newfangled "light" beer with fewer calories and indistinct taste will substitute for the Real Thing. Those who like the lighter brews are quick to criticize the weighty liquids that they equate with...
...reduced audibility" on its cover. Later, after publishing its scoop, the Post obtained transcripts of the Jan. 8 tape that had been prepared by experts on the special prosecutor's staff; they had deleted the hush money reference, deeming that section of the tape to be impossibly indistinct-a problem common to most of the tapes. Colson said he was "absolutely certain" that hush money had not been discussed, and Nixon demanded a retraction from the Post...
What keeps The Killing of a Chinese Bookie from ranking with the best of Cassavetes' previous films (like Husbands) is that it remains simultaneously too obvious and indistinct. We know from the first that Cosmo is one of the walking wounded, so it is hardly necessary to make him into that-quite literally-at the movie's end. Further, the time Cassavetes spends in the Crazy Horse is amusing but aimless...
...would have been glowing anyway. There are Spiro and Monette Pavlovich, who forged transcripts in order to stay on the prestige mill of Harvard graduate schools. These people are extremes, but they attracted, in this day and age, an inordinate amount of attention because they represented extensions, past the indistinct borders of logic, of impulses that are widely present in Harvard students. They are embodiments of the primacy of process and systems and the importance of staying within them, to the exclusion of the niceties of morality...