Word: sound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money. They scramble for a precarious living by scalping movie tickets, acting as brokers for unused ration coupons, or earning commissions on the black-market sale of scarce local products. The more ambitious among them seek out Western consumer items to hawk illegally; popular items include movie-sound track albums, English-language books or clothing patterns laboriously traced from tattered copies of women's magazines. Says one youth who illegally returned to Shanghai from a commune in Yunnan: "The basic rule is that anything Western sells. What do you want for those bell-bottoms...
...political columns again. Already. In the hot sun, long before the winter snows, Columnist Robert Novak of the team of Evans and Novak has been following George Bush around the state, busy making less ("It is doubtful he was seen by more than 100 registered Republican voters") sound like more (". . . could set the foundation for an upset transforming Republican politics...
...film has some assets: attractive Upper West Side locations, a fine cast of New York stage actors and a smattering of clever lines. The basic premise is sound too: When School Chums Jamie and Franny get sick of their respective bickering parents, they run away to spend an illicit weekend acting out the fantasies of romance, something that is absent in their homes. While this plot offers plenty of opportunities for big laughs and emotional ironies, the film rarely mines them. Most of Rich Kids consists of mild scenes that sound better in principle than they play onscreen...
...Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans and Key West. A folk quartet called the Nee Ningy Band has also covered Africa and Western and Eastern Europe during its ten-year career. Consisting of fiddle, harmonica, bodhran (a flat goatskin drum) and penny whistle, the group takes its name from the sound the fiddle makes-nee ningy, nee ningy, nee ningy. Its members carry camping equipment, often stay in local homes. Says Violinist Rachel Maloney: "You learn to live with the insecurity, just as you learn to live with security...
Once rather unpolished compared with commercial radio, All Things Considered is now as smooth as a game show, with catchy electronic music between segments and inventive sound effects. But what really holds the show together is the cohosts: Stamberg, 40, former manager of Washington's public station WAMU, who signed on as a tape editor at the program's inception in 1971; and Bob Edwards, 32, who arrived in 1974 after working as a writer and newsreader at WTOP, Washington's all-news commercial station. Stamberg is the key to the program's ingratiating charm...