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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RIGHTS the people possess, Madison and Hamilton felt, were so numerous that it would be impossible to avoid omitting many in a bill of rights. Worse still, the government and the courts might very well consider the rights specifically enumerated as the only ones the people possessed. Sound familiar...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Just as the Founders Feared | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...film's altered states are enhanced by a soundtrack that accompanies and complements the wordless action--just what Philip Glass's music did for Koyaanisqatsi. Composer Michael Stearns presents a new age, Tangerine Dream/Andreas Vollenweider sound, adding exotic drums and bells that complete the foreign aura...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

...should have been fantastic," says Alexander, a junior, who worked as a lighting and sound designer for a summer stock theater in Vermont. But once he started working, the job description changed. He says he was hired to be assistant musical director, but then the management decided not to do a musical. Bad news for the music concentrator...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: How I Didn't Spend My Summer Vacation | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

...somehow, the two people who switch off the duty of recording the message always manage to make the menu--whether it be Pupu Platter or Chickwichs--sound exciting...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Reach Out And Eat Something | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

This sort of stuff goes on all the time. There are few really new ideas left. Political speechwriters more than earn their wage if they can come up with genuinely new and elegant formulations of tired old cliches. Ted Sorenson made John Kennedy sound like a Boston Bard by doing just that...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Biden His Time | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

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