Word: sonics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious remaining objection to the Concorde is the noise it inflicts on people who live near airports. As long as the Concordes are limited to speeds below Mach 1 (660 m.p.h. at sea level) while flying over land, the black visions of perpetual sonic boom and house-crumbling roars are without any substance...
...evening news. Sci-Tech's promises for the future, far from being welcomed as harbingers of Utopia, now seem too often to be threats. Fears that genetic tinkering might produce a Doomsday Bug, for example, bother many Americans, along with dread that the SST's sonic booms may add horrid racket to the hazards (auto fumes, fluorocarbons, strontium 90) that already burden...
BOSTON (Epic). Heavy metal's big bust-out band of the year, these five rockers from Beantown stir up a sonic maelstrom in a flashy fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds...
...that gives me hope/is my love of a certain dope,/Rose tints my world...Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh" And the mush Janet who'd "only ever kissed before" seems to have forgotten her proper lines as the horror-story heroine; just as Frank's sonic transducer warps time, the visitors' old values distort: "Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me/Creature of the night" Janet sings when the traditional script would demand her to call "Stop!" Listen to this record with your aged aunt who bemoans the fact that "You young people don't appreciate musicals...
...Okay, it's star time. Riff-raff, set the sonic transducer on program eight. prg And secure all levels at zero...relax... you won't find Earth people quite the easy mark you imagine...this sonic transducer is, I suppose, some kind of audio, vibratory physio-molecular transport device...