Word: sonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project is still in the design stage and faces abundant obstacles, including concerns about the effect of sonic booms on the environment and the licensing of advanced U.S. technology to the Soviets. But the partners plan to have detailed designs ready within a few weeks and hope to fly the plane by 1995. Sukhoi will have prime responsibility for the airframe; Gulfstream will concentrate on electronics and cockpit design; and Rolls-Royce has been enlisted to help design the plane's engines...
...watched a demonstration of warplanes beingcatapulted off the deck and screeching into thesky. A thunderous sonic boom from an F-14 caughthim by surprise, and Bush's knees buckled and heducked. He recovered quickly with a sheepish grinand a funny face for cameras...
...notoriously imperious impresario. "When I work on a show," he says, "I'm a wasp. You know how a wasp buzzes around and keeps you on your toes and worries about everything. There's a sound in the air that keeps everything moving." At times the buzz becomes a sonic boom. "Jerry was still rehearsing during previews," says Victor Castelli, a City Ballet soloist who is assisting Robbins. "The kids are exhausted because they are not used to it, and Jerry will be frustrated and annoyed and will yell and scream." But those who have survived Robbins' basic training testify...
...memory are Wire, four British lads who, as the legend goes, re-invented music at the end of the 1970s. Their blend of the visceral and the experimental, grinding guitars and synthesized textures, spawned an outrageous number of disciples in the American and British underground. Bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, 100 Flowers, Sorry, and R.E.M. all pay homage at the Wire altar. Brilliant albums such as The Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, the holy trinity of progressive rock, forever ensured Wire's place at the pinnacle of modern music...
...Quentin"--Boo-Boo is a worthwhile debut. Nothing on this disk is as immediately startling as Volcano Suns' "White Elephant," but then again this EP is a lot easier to listen to than the Suns' All Night Lotus Party. For those who like musical roots mixed in with sonic radicalism, Boo-Boo by Big Dipper is Boston's next big thing...