Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology has advanced--sound-sampling, high-resolution graphics, better microprocessors--the "realism factor" in video games has increased...
...Enfant Jesus, in which Feltsman temporarily relaxed his inhibitions to project the music's ferocious rhythms and clashing polytonal harmonies. Best of all were the encores. In Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, he caressed the delicate, almost impressionistic filigree, and he unleashed an impressively big sound on Beethoven's Six Variations in D Major, Opus 76, whose lumbering melody Beethoven used later for the "Turkish March" in The Ruins of Athens...
...easily imagine the rhetoric: "My fellow Americans, we have been through some unsettling moments recently. While the country is sound and the foundations of economic prosperity and stability are solid, we have some pressing problems that must be addressed with new energy and resolve and without partisan acrimony and without regard for personal political + advantage." Instead, Reagan has shouted fragmented and unwise slogans. Advises New York City Financier Felix Rohatyn: "He must not try to run after the markets; he must get ahead of them with credible, long-range plans...
...growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher, and piloting the doughty vessel Military Industrial Complex across the briny reaches of Vineyard Sound...