Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press had crucial evidence to the contrary. Reporters heard the historic profanity carried over the microphone, and they videotaped Reagan's lips forming the naughty words--though their sound was cut off by the White House staff...
...harmless way for anyone to release feelings of anger and recklessness. But swearing and then lying about it break two, not just one, of society's mores. In his attempt to fabricate an artificially pure image of himself, Reagan reverted to the fantasy world of a Hollywood sound stage instead of facing up to what was hardly a controversial...
Forlidas. Sound familiar? It shouldn...
Relevant choice of music, I thought, as the cheerleaders gyrated to the strains of "Conga" by Miami Sound Machine...
Boulez's music, derived from the twelve-tone system of Arnold Schoenberg, is devoid of conventional melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at first acquaintance, yet, like the notion that Boulez is unfeeling, this too is a misper- ception. Forbidding though his music undeniably can be, it amply repays careful, open-minded listening, gradually revealing its sweep and surge...