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Word: pounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other problems. So if they don't go to Rhode Island, they go to the Worcesfer Centrum Which is fine for all the students at Worcesfer High, who immediately buy 1,000 tickets each and help them back to us for 10 times the original price and a pound of flesh for good measure...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: The Rock Concert Blues | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

Ginsberg: Chanting more than music. Pound used to say "pay attention to the tone meaning of the vowels." In Greek you have the pitch. That's why people don't know how to chant Home: anymore because the oral tradition has been lost. And they have to figure it out from the diacritical marks. If you become sensitized to the pitch of the vowels you will begin to appreciate the consonants and bite them like Bob Dylan does, or as any great singer does. You also savor the vowels as physical marbles in your month and become more interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ginsberg on the Beat | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

Ginsberg: An enormous amount. Many word sociologists like McClure and Pound say that when words get separated from direct conversation when they are just on the page without the physical component of sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ginsberg on the Beat | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

American tourists have happily profited from the falling pound. Thousands have jetted off to London to snatch up woolens, suits and china at bargain prices. Just before New Year's, Harrods, the stylish department store, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to attract U.S. customers to its | annual post-Christmas sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pound Watching: Thatcher to the rescue | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Although Thatcher's action last week stemmed the pound's decline temporarily, the long-term effectiveness of such rescue efforts is questionable. During the past few years, several governments have attempted to intervene unilaterally in world money markets in order to push the value of their currencies up or down. They have had only brief, limited success. Ultimately, the markets determine a currency's value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pound Watching: Thatcher to the rescue | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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