Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than half of the 180 residents of Saragosa, a tiny farm town in West Texas, were in the community hall Friday night attending a graduation ceremony for preschool children enrolled in a Government Head Start program. About 8 p.m., some heard a whistling sound. "Someone yelled a tornado was coming, and parents started grabbing their kids from the stage," recalls Elodia Garcia, 26. A number shoved their children under tables and benches...
...from renting violent videos. Some keep offensive titles in a separate room, while others insist that parents specify on membership cards which films their children are allowed to take home. "It's really the parents' job to police what their kids watch," says Mark Hooper, video manager of a Sound Warehouse outlet in Memphis. "About all we can do is not stock titles that we know are going to cause trouble...
...first time in Nationalist rule, the government found itself with a right-wing party as the official opposition. The lurch to the right sets the stage for a struggle between the Nationalists and the Conservatives, led by former Dutch Reformed Church Minister Andries Treurnicht, to see which party can sound more determined to protect the white minority...
...footlights. Chinese Opera Star Wang Xingna confesses that before playing Harold Hill he disliked American musicals. "Now I find they have merits," allows Wang. "I think the audience will like them, just as they like pop songs." Fine. But how does "P and that stands for pool" sound in Mandarin...
...center of all the attention is a class of compounds known as sucrose polyester (SPE). Although that may sound like a new material for leisure suits, SPE looks and tastes like vegetable oil but passes through the body without entering the bloodstream. Research at the University of Cincinnati appears to show that it can reduce a person's existing cholesterol levels. It supposedly satisfies what market researchers call the "mouth-feel" requirement that eludes so many yucky-tasting diet-oriented products. P&G, which has tested olestra on more than 1,800 people in the past 15 years, contends that...