Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps something is quietly passing us by as we are attending "the nation's oldest, richest and most prestigious college." Perhaps it is a good thing the student body here is "reputed to be one of the best in the country." The education, based on sound courses, attentive professors, well-organized departments and intelligent counselling, is the only thing missing...
Perhaps we knew when the first sound reached the press bus behind Kennedy's limousine. A distant crack, another. A pause, and another crack. Something was dangerously...
Rattle and Hum, the title of both U2's brand-new album of the 1987 tour and the energetic performance documentary film released last week, is the sound of the band making contact: with music, with tradition, with their audience, with one another. The title comes from Bullet the Blue Sky, their rabble-rousing apocalypse about American muscle flexing in Central America ("In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum . . . Outside is America"), but the substance of these various tour diaries is, in fact, an exploration. U2 did more than reach back. They immersed themselves in American musical culture...
...national-security adviser, whom Bush declined to fire when he became enmeshed in allegations about illegal aid to the contras. During the campaign Bush stoutly defended a host of controversial Administration figures -- Ray Donovan, Robert Bork, Oliver North, Ed Meese, Don Regan, John Poindexter. It may have been sound politics, but it hints that Bush may be no better than Reagan at firing people...
...been the ultimate model for listeners learning English as a second language. The familiar opener for Radio Newsreel -- a brassy rendition of Imperial Echoes, with its resonance of a colonial past -- is gone and may not be missed. But news programs will still be introduced with a revered sound: the bouncy tune of the Irish song Lilliburlero and the muffled chimes...