Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starters, Penn will have trouble without a sound forward, and Princeton will have trouble without a sound player...
...location shooting is the multiplication of out-of-state production facilities. No longer does a producer have to return to Hollywood for editing and other postproduction work. New York City has vastly expanded the Kaufman Astoria Studios, where many silent films were shot in the '20s, and sound stages are being constructed all over the city. The flamboyant North Carolina film producer Earl Owensby who already owns one studio in Shelby, N.C., is building another: an ambitious 426-acre facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C., which also includes a theme park. Texas, which last year yielded a bumper crop...
...sound of Muzak is, of course, almost everywhere, and metastasizing: in the bank and the supermarket and the of fice elevator, on the telephone line when the victim has been put on hold. It plays in the White House and the Pentagon; it played during the Olympics; it played in the Apollo XI spaceship that carried Neil Armstrong to the moon...
...patents to the North American Co. utilities combine, which backed him in launching Wired Radio, Inc., a kind of competitor to the booming fad for wireless radio. But not until 1934, the year of his death, did the general think up a catchy new name, combining the sound of music with the sound of the popular camera called the Kodak...
...true of attitudes toward the Soviet Union, arms control, Central America and the European allies, among others. The need to compromise was symbolized by the resort to bipartisan commissions (the Scowcroft panel on the MX missile, the Kissinger group on Central America) that did extremely useful work and produced sound, generally centrist recommendations, which by no reasonable standard could be described as weak. Despite recent, markedly pacific gestures from the Administration, it remains to be seen whether, in the second term, such centrist policies will prevail or whether the right-wing "true believers" will succeed in reasserting the ideological superhard...