Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra phone to be disconnected, but it wasn't in the rules...
...inches of counterspace separating us, customers will carry on intensely private conversations. That is, until I break the illusion of my non-existence by cheerfully interrupting. Grinning stupidly into their startled faces I might ask, "Do you guys really think Melissa should break up with Paul? He doesn't sound so bad." Retreating in confusion they'll scuttle down the line, conversation...
Something Wild. (MCA) Sound-track albums are usually a flat-out marketing ploy to give movies a spurious Top 40 identity. This one is different, as kicky and eccentric as Jonathan Demme's inverted thriller (starring Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith), which it accompanies. Hearing these ten tunes is like checking into a padded cell inside a Wurlitzer. Listen to David Byrne's lyric for his salsa-inflected opening song, Loco de Amor ("Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album...
Although a recent poll indicates the general public seems to favor compulsory testing, especially of those in high-risk groups, experts question its wisdom. "For both sound public-health reasons and civil rights reasons, we are very much opposed to any type of mandatory testing," says Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. Experience with other diseases, he says, shows that without an effective cure for AIDS, such a policy would be useless. "Until treatment was available, mandatory testing and ((sexual)) contact tracing did nothing to stem the spread of syphilis...
...standard of much current fiction, these events sound like small potatoes indeed, stuff to get out of the way before the corporate takeover or the bedroom marathon. But Naipaul manages to give each isolated incident the ! inevitability and gravity of history. The impression is not that so little happens in ten years but that a series of small upheavals so shake a tiny, isolated corner of the world. Having found, after some 40 years of struggle, his ideal landscape, Naipaul must watch its deterioration and decline. He can, within reason, be philosophical about this process, acknowledging that his sense...