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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound a little prejudiced, but she was the best basketball player I've ever seen," Lexington basketball Coach Sandy Curt said, "I wish I had her back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharon Hayes | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

They looked up the day the warbirds flew over Florida, however. No one can help but pay attention to the racket of pistons firing individually, a sound gone out of modernity. Nowadays jets scream, and cars, even motorcycles, hum. A spectator, Cal Buchanan from Orlando, a "grease monkey from way back yonder," ventured that "I came along when you could hear what was wrong with a motor 90% of the time. Good ears and 50 cents'll get you a cup of coffee these days, if you shop around." As a gorgeous P-38 rattled down the field, Buchanan called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...album supposedly draws its name from the title of a Sex Pistols bootleg; however, there is little evidence of punk influence on this record. Vocals are strongly imitative of circa-1977 David Bowie, though occasionally a glint of Billy Idol's solo work also comes through. In general, the sound suffers from blatant overuse of drum machines and synthesizers...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Goldilocks Rock | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

What a Life! is the second album from the Australian band Divinyls. Their music is claimed to form a synthesis of punk and pop. Singer Christina Amphlett manages to prove marginally successful in this endeavor, though the sound is generally much closer to pop than to punk...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Goldilocks Rock | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...could transform this dry tale into an honest, intense look at a family in crisis. Yorkin, however, does as much as he possibly can to curtail any such developments, repeatedly placing his characters against technicolor skies as they set off to build new lives across the rainbow in Puget Sound...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: More Than Twice | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

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