Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...save Fantasia from the Nothing, a terrible force that threatens the fictional world from all sides. Bastian gets caught up in the story and soon finds himself mysteriously cropping up in what he reads; at one exciting moment he screams and immediately reads of Atreyu cringing at the sound. Bastian is drawn in more and more, eventually playing a pivotal role at the story's climax...
...quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco 1940s house on a lot the size of a gas-station road map. Asking price: $269,000. A plump woman walking by wearing a muumuu said, "It may sound high, but you pay to be close to the beach. The air is better." Down at the beach in Santa Monica, at Ocean Boulevard Park, the government had erected a sign: NOTICE. BLUFF SUBJECT TO SLIDES. USE PARK AT YOUR OWN RISK. This...
...roller skates. On the freeway you see an oil pump in a bend where, elsewhere in the nation, there would most likely be a fruit stand. There is a camouflaged oil pump on the campus of Beverly Hills High School. Just as you begin to understand there is sensible, sound, big commerce in this vast polyglot a sign looms up: LANDSLIDE AREA. CONSTANT LAND MOVEMENT NEXT 0.8 MILES. USE EXTREME CAUTION. Constant land movement? So why build a house on mobile dirt...
...Sound, fury and rotting fruit signify trouble for Thatcher...
...white steelworkers coexist rather sullenly, if at all, with those of blacks, or of feminists. In the pageant of unity last week, one speaker after another recited a Whitmanesque litany of races and classes and minorities and interests and occupations-or unemployments. Some speakers, in fact, made the nation sound like an immense ingathering of victims-terrorized senior citizens, forsaken minorities, Dickensian children-warmed by the party's Frank Capra version of America: Say, it's a wonderful life...