Word: loudnesses
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...know what I think we should do with it? I think we should give it to a member of the Harvard class of 2011!” The audience that packed Sanders Theater drowned out my last few syllables with screams, whoops and hollers, so loud I almost took a step back. Really? Just because I said your class year? I can’t imagine any situation when shouting “2008” would draw that kind of reaction from my classmates. And it wasn’t just class pride: during the Crimson Key Society?...
...obscenity to denounce Islam in its title had attracted nearly 850 members as of 6 p.m. yesterday. The group’s description begins by stating that “The Quran contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear.” The description later extends its antipathy to religion to Christianity and Judaism as well. A slew of Facebook groups have sprung up against this anti-Islam group, some threatening to quit Facebook altogether if the group is not removed. According to John G. Palfrey...
Before reality TV involved writers, immunity challenges and Paris Hilton, there was the Loud family. A public-television crew spent hundreds of hours in 1971 with a "typical" California family that proved to be anything but. Midway through the 12-hour cinema-verit series, paterfamilias and executive Bill Loud and wife Pat decided to split up. Their son Lance was casually introduced into the gay social scene of Greenwich Village in what would remain one of the most matter-of-fact treatments of a homosexual TV "character" for decades. The series raised what seem like--in the Big Brother...
...Loud cheers from the crowd got cheeky smiles and a wave from the same two Princes today as they made their way out of Guards Chapel, near Buckingham Palace, after the service. Elton John, who sang sad songs at Diana's funeral, strode out to the kind of applause he'd have been more used to on stage. Even Gordon Brown, as fresh a British Prime Minister as Tony Blair was when Diana was killed, got his own big cheer. (The cool Scot responded with...
...remembrance, yes, but not really a day of grieving. Unlike the flood of despair that poured forth in 1997, this time around there was barely a tear. Along the pavement towards Guards Chapel, some stared off into the distance, while others warbled to the hymns piped out over loud speakers from inside the service. Done with humming, "The Lord's My Shepherd," Londoner John Santos fondly remembered "an outstanding woman with a common touch." Showing up today, he said, was simply to make sure that "won't be forgotten...