Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must you hiss every time a professor says "Yale" in class? Hiding behind The Joke's inherent anonymity, hundreds. of Harvard undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced, chicken-butt cowards. Yea, I know it's not you--its the next guy. Always the next guy. Well listen up, spineless--it's a community problem now, a problem we are going to have to face and deal with together...
With that I lowered myself to the ground and crawled chest to earth between the rows of strawberries, trying not to emit the sound that would send the fanged canines to do me in. I was too scared to visualize the surreal implications of my plight. Each foot was emotionally exhausting, each moment a frame from a real-life thriller. And all I wanted was fantasy: the mundane reality waiting at Cinderella's Castle...
...what better place for a messy game than Meehan, with its bad ice, slow boards and dead crowd. Worse than the sparse attendance, though, is the sound-deadening quality of the cavernous concrete structure, which this year celebrates its 25th year of marring the Harvard schedule...
...problem, you may remember, was traced to a rubber O-ring in the right-hand booster. O-rings may sound insignificant, but they're not. One Air Force official compared the space shuttle's dependency on O-rings to an airplane's dependency on wings. NASA rates O-rings as items of "Criticality I," meaning that their failure could result in the destruction of the space shuttle...
...that sounds like traditional blues territory, the next two songs (written by Album Producer Dennis Walker) find fresh ground. I Guess I Showed Her is the lament of a prideful lover who took his leave too soon ("Room 16 ain't got no view, but/ The hot plate's brand new./ I guess I showed her"), and Right Next Door (Because of Me) is a reflective apology sung by the kind of guy who usually doesn't say he's sorry: "She was right next door, and I'm such a strong persuader./ She was just another notch...