Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the car, truck and bus, the bike does not spew stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
Moore races the reader through a series of crepuscular turns with the smooth efficiency of a Mercedes on a rain-slicked street at night. The quiet operations of secret intelligence are this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end, seem lean to the point of thinness, one can almost see, as the pressure mounts toward a palpitating climax, the closing credits rise above a seamless and thoroughly gripping motion picture...
...proliferation of Yellow Pages has transformed a quiet business that had changed little since the New Haven (Conn.) District Telephone Co. published the first such directory in 1878: a one-page roster of eleven residences and 39 doctors, factories and other commercial listings. Since neither the name Yellow Pages nor the walking-fingers symbol is a protected trademark (they passed into generic use long before AT&T's divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names...
...despite the quiet that once again reignsover Harvard Yard, one freshman warned, "It willcome again...
...said. "I love it." He went into the offstage dealing you do to separate a candidate from the pack and make him a front runner, and if this were a political account we would put the tricks into the ledger. Moreover, on the next day, we would have a quiet hour with the candidate and find him an intelligent, well-intentioned man with pragmatic ideas and lofty ideals. But we don't know his fellow Democratic contenders -- Jim Brown, Buddy Roemer, Butch Baum, Tom Clausen, Speedy Long (and we do not wish to arm-wrestle the incumbent) -- or the lone...