Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...betrays all the self-conscious "translationese" of the turn of the century--even to the using the word "poesy" for "poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing the actors' motion and delivery to match the tone. This works in spots, but it cannot keep things moving for two and a half hours. The weight of verbiage is simply too great...
...even before the pullout was completed, the sound of artillery shells and rockets once again shattered the precarious cease-fire that was negotiated in Lausanne, Switzerland, three weeks ago. The first salvos caught many people in the streets of West Beirut. There was panic as motorists and pedestrians raced to get home or to basement shelters. More than 30 people were killed and scores of others injured, making March 28 the worst single day of violence in seven weeks. The heavy shelling led to urgent consultations among Lebanon's warlords, and President Amin Gemayel convened the first meeting...
...from school to protest their country's 30% unemployment and 30% inflation. Public transportation was scarce, and a majority of truckers stayed off the roads. After the Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall, the streets of Santiago were filled with the sound of banging pots and pans as Chileans leaned out their windows, just technically in compliance with the curfew laws designed to keep them off the streets. Said Gabriel Valdes, president of the Democratic Alliance, a coalition that includes political parties from the Republican right to the Socialists: "The people have...
...around him, Arnold Palmer has just taken to wearing a small hearing aid at 54. "I never thought I'd do it," he says, "but I needed one, so I'm doing it. And you know what? Hitting a golf ball has a whole new different sound." A tour on the march, and Palmer at the point, is certainly familiar. "The galleries have been mostly our own vintage," says Palmer, who earned $106,590 last year. "But the younger set is starting to be attracted too." Though carts are essential for some and permissible for all, Palmer does...
...Michael Deaver, who together manage the White House staff and channel advice to the President; and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. While Haig starkly portrays the President's men as amateurs in foreign policy who care only about its short-term domestic political implications, he praises Ronald Reagan for sound instincts, and his criticism of the President is, for the most part, oblique. Nonetheless, he strongly implies that Reagan also became part of the problem by siding too readily with his "chums" in skirmishes over policy, presiding over an "incoherent" national security process and above all failing to control...