Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their ideals are bankrupt in the urban jungle. The modern hero, such as The Kid in Purple Rain, is a creature of the media; he lives and prospers through the forces that have been nudging theater to the margins. Larger-than-life means being a master of the music, sound, and light, that can be carried in a cassette, a boy or girl on film--to quote mediamasters Duran Duran. Competing with characters that are more than a single man, how can the theater survive but by capitalizing on its weakness...
...adversaries and the consequent need to maintain a potent military posture; and 4) to prescribe a future course that would couple a strong defense establishment with a much enhanced economic aid program, aimed at stimulating Third World entrepreneurship and two-way trade. Nixon's proposals have been hailed as sound if not original. But his appraisal of his own stewardship sometimes seems more generous than candid...
Mansfield adds that music from the 1930s and 1940s is most suitable for a close-harmony singing group. "Anything that relies on a contemporary sort of drum beat sound is heavily synthesized and doesn't work well...
...disclosure that renders so irrelevant the particulars of time and place. To call this "Caribbean fiction" is only a gross restriction, an amputation and disfigurement of what is central: the mythical contours of the landscape, the pretences who inhabit it in the sublimated forms of colors, shapes, and sounds. Here it is a displacement by evaluation: "They come and go, walking on the damp ground in straw shoes. Their feet in the straw shoes make a scratchy sound. They say nothing...
Millions of college sound high school seniors no doubt agree entirely with how author David Owen '78 feels about the Scholastic Aptitude Test...