Word: loudnesses
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...years, neighbors in South Austin battled against an adult-movie theater on South Congress Avenue, a street that divides the funky district from downtown. But when an Internet company called Future Protocol Inc. took its place this year, the groans of disappointment were every bit as loud. "They could be gone in a year," says resident Cory Walton, 45, "and we're left with a trail of terror--high rents, high real estate...
...wanted the moment to end. We had finally got her, and we would float to Pusan before we would give her up. We were all crying and laughing and trying to fit all of us under the birth mother's tiny pink umbrella. But the rain was so loud you couldn't talk. We ran for the van and sat in there, Rae holding her half sister and her birth mother holding the daughter she must have thought she would never...
...sang - or at least lip-synced - "Believe." Then, as an apology after admitting to not voting for him, she gave a nice rendition of "If I Could Turn Back Time." Diana Ross took the stage in a big yellow feathery coat and grouched at the band for not being loud enough. She was not alone in her grouching...
...course there were struggles. At six, Woods developed a speech impediment that took two years of special reading classes to correct. "I couldn't even read out loud to myself," he told an audience last week in New Orleans at a golf clinic for inner-city youths, one of five he will give this year on behalf of the Tiger Woods Foundation. The speech impediment still prevents him from speaking foreign languages--though he reads Spanish and understands spoken Thai, his mother's native tongue...
...junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...