Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bugs, sticks his tongue out in "nyah" fashion and promptly gets both barrels of Elmer's shotgun. When the smoke clears, Daffy's beak is arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs and / mutters, "Let's run through that again." Bugs' cunning, Elmer's gullibility, Daffy's indomitable ego and Director Chuck Jones' comic artistry are all on display inside of 20 seconds...
...voice is extraordinary, deep but also quite soft. Sometimes Gorbachev talks for several minutes in a near whisper, low and melodious. Then, without warning, his voice can cut across the room. It is not angry or bullying, just stronger than any other sound in the room. Occasionally the eyes, the hands and the voice reach peak power at the same time, and then it is clear why this man is General Secretary...
...Masami Takahama, as his plane pitches and yaws out of control. "Hey, there's a mountain," he tells his crew at one point. In the passenger cabin, a flight attendant says, "Hold your babies tightly." The last words recorded: "Pull up! Pull up!" The tape ends with a crashing sound...
...Another critical factor has been the refusal of many American and European banks to renew loans to South African borrowers. Last week the governor of South Africa's central bank, Gerhard de Kock, flew to Europe and the U.S. to try to convince bankers that South Africa remains a sound investment. But his efforts were made more difficult by the crescendo of unrest at home. The black National Union of Mineworkers was threatening to call a strike at several gold mines this week, which would deal a further blow to the country's troubled economy and create yet another area...
...said for the kind of unfazable aplomb that only generations of inherited wealth and socially impeccable inbreeding can produce. Tom is captured and brainwashed by the local guerrillas in a test of wills that ends in a draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time...