Word: resounding
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...Lowell House bells, whose tones resound for a quarter-hour each Sunday morning, may be claimed by an echo of their Russian past...
...mind of a prepubescent boy can be a confused and chaotic place. Caught between childhood and adolescence, he's flooded by new impulses, teased by an itch he can't quite scratch. So wordless lust is confined in wordless thoughts that resound in his tormented head. The 12-year-old narrator of Ed Lin's edgy debut novel Waylaid is the only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit...
Matthews is perhaps the only white pop star--sorry, Eminem--who could legitimately claim to be African American. Yeah, sure, it's only technically true, thanks to his birthplace. But echoes of Africa do resound in his work. "I'm inspired by resilience in the face of adversity," he says. "And that's Africa. The continent has been so repeatedly betrayed by disease and by invasion that its contributions to the world are pretty amazing. The art of the 20th century--the stuff that in 200 years the world will look back on--a lot of it will be rooted...
Outlasting the century he brilliantly ornamented, Gielgud will live longer still, as long as the melody of his voice and vision resound in films, recordings and grateful memories...
...Americans in Miami are finally raising their voices above the din of the city's Spanish-language, anticommunist talk radio. Political debates that used to be whispered in Little Havana kitchens are now held in clubs where the rhythms of once forbidden Cuban salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect...