Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of these names, particularly the latter, not sound familiar? Few people have heard of the Buxtehude and de Machaut, but if Saul J. Weiner '88 and Hajime A. Tokuno '88 have their way, these and other composers of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance will be saved from obscurity...
...more than 650 "cooperatives." While a policeman looks on benignly, commuters outside Kiev railway station examine the cloth shopping bags, plastic sandals and odds and ends of knitwear on display in a battered truck. Street artists on the Arbat compete for customers. Gorky Park is alive with the sound of plastic bird whistles, costing a relatively hefty 1.50 rubles...
...laugh this season. A new term has even been coined to describe the hybrid form: dramedies. Three new series -- ABC's Hooperman and The "Slap" Maxwell Story and CBS's Frank's Place -- are ostensibly comedies, but they go for few jokes and have no laughter on the sound track. As for the more traditional sitcoms, they are tackling such heavy subjects as AIDS (Designing Women), Alzheimer's disease (The Golden Girls) and teenage drunk driving (this week's segment of Valerie's Family). On a recent episode of Kate & Allie, a middle-class mother of two (Jane Curtin...
Unfortunately, the improvising can often sound tinny and unconvincing. In a September episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia (Estelle Getty) met an old gent on a park bench, then discovered that her new friend had Alzheimer's disease. Never mind that the series has stooped to making jokes about Sophia's own near senility; this case of Alzheimer's was so mild that the viewer hardly noticed it before the fellow was whisked offscreen...
...findings are accurate, ideas about atmospheric evolution might have to be revised. The two admit the results "are still very preliminary," but they insist the method is sound...