Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many, the experience becomes primarily a listing game, with lists for most birds seen in a day or lifetime, a county or a season. Peterson, 78, once kept a list of birdcalls he heard on movie sound tracks. Some feel compelled to list birds seen during a single minute, or those seen while sitting in one chair for a full...
...mall: "He told me to give him my license and sit down and shut up or he'd throw my ass in jail for public intoxication. I told him I hadn't seen much else but public intoxication in San Antonio that night, and his handcuffs made a cricketlike sound as he took them off his belt. I gave him my license...
...given North's reputation for embellishing or even inventing conversations between the President and himself, should what he told Secord be believed? "I did not take it as a joke," said Secord. Nonetheless, he said he was "skeptical" about North's report of the conversations, because "it did not sound like the kind of conversation you would have in the office of the Commander in Chief." Reagan, questioned by reporters at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, growled, "I did not know about" the possibly illegal diversion...
...This may sound like a sweaty hubbub, one of those desperately contrived comedies that want to have their overproduced action sequences and devour them satirically too. But May is a writer of scripts that are all sneaky asides, no obvious zingers allowed. She is not one to let her voice be drowned out by either a lot of exploding hardware or the buzz about Ishtar's delays and cost overruns. One finally cannot resist warming to a movie in which people are astonished to find out that Gaddafi is the name of a man not a country but are strangely...
...Beatles had never been heard in a commercial before, although Help! was performed by a sound-alike group in a 1985 Lincoln-Mercury spot. Says Kelley Stoutt, an account executive at Wieden & Kennedy, who helped work out the ad campaign: "We never considered sound-alikes. We're baby boomers too. This is our music. In our minds, it was the Beatles or no one." After some ticklish negotiations and two large payments, it was the Beatles singing and playing for Nike-Air shoes. No getting around it: Nike has brought the current craze for rock commercials to a benchmark...