Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north and 50 degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact coordinates; an error of only minutes in either direction translates into an uncertainty of many square miles. Worse, the ocean floor has bumps, rolls and other geological features that could produce a reflected sound-wave pattern confusingly similar to that of a sunken ship...
...broken new ground. "Until now no one has been able to detect or transcribe emotion from a stock-performance chart," he says. Gammill is now setting the market performance of Exxon and Coca-Cola to music. Investors looking for a new stock may soon ask, "How does that stock sound...
...sound of machine gunfire resolves into a pulsing electronic rock beat. Staccato images flash by. A flock of pink-plumed flamingos. Bikini- clad girls on the beach. Race horses bursting from the starting gate. The ocean speeding by under the bow of a boat. And, of course, the familiar art deco logo, glowing in vibrant turquoise and pink...
...Allen. The show is also playing a major role (along with such new series as Amazing Stories and The Twilight Zone) in attracting writers and directors who have previously avoided television. "The old stigma against TV is gone now," says Bobby Roth. "A lot of shows are going to sound better, and they are going to look better. And I think Miami Vice is a big reason for that...
...policy of "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies operating in South Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make a difference in South Africa, its words will sound more and more like an apologia for the status quo than a realistic program for change...