Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...m.p.h. past two sentries, who had unloaded M-16s on their shoulders, and then steered between a pair of iron pipes that had been placed outside headquarters not to stop terrorists but to guide traffic. The only impediment was a roll of barbed wire that "just made a popping sound" as the truck drove through, "like someone walking over twigs," recounted a guard. One stunned Marine "kind of stared for a couple of seconds" before loading his rifle, too late. The driver of the truck "looked right at me," said another. "He smiled...
While the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington might not have chosen bingo as a means to the native American dream, the Reagan Administration has reacted with benign neglect. Indeed, the enthusiasts among Indians sound like Reagan Republicans. "If anyone here is not working today," claims Barona Tribal Chairman Joe Welch, "it's because they don't want...
...fallen into desuetude among their operatic descendants. But not in pop music, where one Italian baritone has, however unwittingly, put Tosi's recommendations into practice throughout his four-decade career: Frank Sinatra. A 16-album, $350 set of vintage recordings, recently released on the audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, documents Sinatra's vocal art at its peak...
...receives an average of two dozen new tapes every week and insists that it will play all of them, as long, in Les Garland's words, "as they have no gratuitous sex or violence, are technically sound and feature rock-'n'-roll music." The executives, not the deejays, make the choices, and researchers hit the phones, logging approximately 3,000 survey calls each week. Response helps determine how long a video stays on the air, and how frequently it will run. Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, for example, is breaking in with "light...
...Critics, nevertheless, delighted in enumerating the movie's improbabilities and disparagingly pointed out its resemblance to a rock video. None of that seemed to trouble the paying public, which has forked over nearly $93 million to see Flashdance in the theater, an additional $47 million for the sound track and some $8 million for the privilege of owning the video cassette and getting down and getting groovy in the privacy of their homes...