Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Foreign Minister appeared a bit less dour when he visited the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Wednesday morning for a private meeting with Secretary of State Shultz. The two posed amiably at a picture-taking session in Ambassador Kirkpatrick's office; Gromyko clicked softly to mimic the sound of camera lens shutters. The meeting was much shorter than the American side had expected, lasting just three hours. Neither side would disclose what was said, but American officials reported that the meeting represented "a good start...
Despite Arlen's grand theme, his book feels slight. He has turned to book-length fiction comparatively late in life; evidently it is not his natural form. Even so, Arlen has sound instincts about human nature: Tom is wholly believable in his fumbling attempts to launch a just-us-guys friendship with his father's latest collaborator; Sam's mistress Maria performs a convincing balancing act between servility and possession. Arlen's prose, if too painstakingly crafted, is at once taut and richly evocative. And in its glimpses of combat between father...
When Robert Duvall falls in love with a toy doll this week in the syndicated rerun of a 21-year-old episode of The Twilight Zone called Miniature, he is transported into new dimensions not only of sight and sound but, for the first time, of color as well. As Duvall's dollhouse sweetheart comes magically to life, the set of Rod Selling's stark black-and-white classic is suddenly painted in rainbow hues...
LIKE "SLIME" and "grime," "sleaze" contains the sound of its meaning. Like "grease" and "squeeze," it's suggestive--onomatopoetic. Moreover, all of these are linked in another way--they have all come to have a political meaning...
...narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light and shadow remain to tease the imagination. If he had never gone beyond the skill displayed in these early efforts, the world might not have recognized Calvino; but the touch of the born storyteller is here all the same...