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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms-control enterprise. By the same token, there was nothing wrong with George Bush's earlier attempt to articulate a vision of a Western strategy that will go "beyond containment," but that concept seemed insubstantial and unconvincing in the absence of concrete proposals. Last week Bush made it sound real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Back in Business | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...fighting spilled out of the Tiananmen area and into other Beijing neighborhoods. Trucks were set afire, and the sound of shooting filled the air. Troops firing from the rooftops and upper floors of Radio Beijing and the Minzu Hotel wounded and killed people who were asleep in their homes. Across town, reporters sighted tanks on the move, some of them firing their cannon indiscriminately down what appeared to be near-empty thoroughfares. Huge blazes swept across residential districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despair and Death In a Beijing Square | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...sprightliest and most polished, and it proves the axiom that art has the most universal appeal when it is the most specific. The script is remarkably faithful to Moliere's original in plot and characters, yet entirely contemporary -- a duality hilariously hinted at, before the curtain rises, when the sound system tinkles out Guantanamera on a harpsichord. A Cuban emigre himself, Santeiro has a dead-on eye and ear for people, from the fiercely pretentious grandmother who wants everyone to forget she used to keep pigs to the nosy, noisy maid whose fractured syntax includes the news that an acquaintance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Once Outposts, Now Landmarks | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...basically building a center will entail elimination of student offices there, they have no right to call it a student center," says Camp. "Everything the SCSC and the Undergraduate Council have determined a student center to be has centered on student offices. It doesn't sound like this will be any revolution or renaissance in student extracurricular life...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Humanities Center Proposals: Resolving the Space Crunch | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

AFTER four years at Harvard, these concerns sound familiar. Critics of the College find similar faults. But I was being paid by the University to justify the system, at least enough to garner a donation and a modicum of alumni interest...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Unlikely Ambassadors | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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