Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever the merits of Lang's efforts, they have certainly been visible-and audible. Last year, for example, he decided that the French should mark the summer solstice with a national "musical festival" in which everyone would simultaneously pluck, pound, tingle and bow musical instruments as church bells rang and neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump...
Galardi's basic burger is thin-he gets ten patties per pound of meat-and comes wrapped in plain paper. The price goes up to as much as 95? for a double cheeseburger. Says Customer Tim Hebert, 17, a high school student: "It's incredibly average, but it's cheap...
...master of ceremonies announces two more goodies for the now utterly indifferent throng--one pound of David's Cookies and two more Sack Theater passes...
...freshman dorm room with bloody knuckles. It was the day their upperclass housing assignments arrived in the mail. Both Nance and the friend had been sent to Currier, having failed to get into the House of their choice in the lottery. The news prompted Nance's friend to pound a wall in protest...
...revolutionary to the Jew who is a plutocrat," the result was not so felicitous. Dale never averts her eye from these occasions, but she manages to find a rationale for every lapse, from deliberate naivete to the production of potboilers. Alas, there is something to be said for Ezra Pound's annoyance with Chesterton for "never taking a hedge straight . . . dodging behind clumsy...