Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Consumer Reports article, an evaluation of several loudspeaker systems, the Bose model 901 was criticized for producing sounds that "tended to wander about the room." Bose Corp. sued in federal court in Boston, claiming product disparagement. After extensive testimony from the engineer responsible for the choice of words, the judge hearing the case ruled that the published statement had been false, since the sound actually wandered "along the wall." He further held that Consumers Union was guilty of malice because the engineer was too intelligent to have made the error inadvertently...
...truth, MacLaine's idea of home is a sound stage, or a rehearsal hall, or an airplane, or anywhere she can write. Her work may differ from year to year-she calls herself "a communicator"- but work in some form comes first. And she is prepared to suffer for it. For years, she had stage fright so acute that she would go through a show, step by step, in her sleep every night. Her feet are so sensitive that she changes shoes three or four times a day to vary the pressure points. Yet in rehearsal she dances until...
...with the sculptor in Act II of Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term for Seurat's technique), that puts on a sound-and-light show at the flick of a switch. Soon he will fall through a visionary's looking glass into the past, to find art merging with dreams on an ordinary Sunday on La Grande Jatte...
...Bellow's fiction offers a look at life that is not only essential but is unique among his contemporaries. Bellow has been the most rigorous naysayer to nihilism of his era. He has never tried to hide the gloomy truths about modern life or gloss over all the sound reasons (starting or ending with Auschwitz) for a thinking person to despair. His most memorable characters (Herzog, Mr. Sammler, Henderson the Rain King) can list in sometimes comic detail all the symptoms of the decline of the West. Almost alone in serious contemporary fiction, though, Bellow's heroes think...
That may not sound like a snapshot from a disappointing season. The truth of the matter is that it wasn't a bad season, but it wasn't a particularly good one either...