Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PETER GABRIEL: SO (Geffen). Convex melodies surround songs that sound like a travel diary of a spiritual netherworld...
...broadsides for operas by Mozart and Janacek (with sets and costumes from designs by the artist). Here are brilliant announcements for the International Year of the Child; a magnificent lion and butterfly for the Broadway flop Stages; and 1985's poster for Jewish Book Month, with the sound rabbinical advice, "To three possessions thou shouldst look. Acquire a field, a friend, a book...
...Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...
Which brings us to a third secret of our age: many of us do not willingly live in our age at all. That may sound perverse to you, since we have no choice but to live where we were put. But it is very hard to take one's bearings while living in a perpetualmotion device, and the mind, our private mind, unable to catch up with or absorb all the matter hurled at it, often grasps a different ground entirely...
...such things sound familiar to you, or has the world advanced so exponentially these hundred years that our common sights are fossils? Futurologists guess about your life, drawing pictures of robot doctors, television sets that one can talk back to, cars that park themselves. There must be more to you than that...