Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loud because this year's Game means nothing. Say it loud to drown out the distant sound of cheering, rolling over the hills and rivers from Ithaca, N.Y., where the real Game is being played, the one that will have a bearing on the Ivy title...
...sour note--and it is a particularly dissonant one--is struck by the sound system. In a show of this caliber, with the kind of money Mainstage shows get, it is inexcusable to have feedback obscuring the performers' voices. In addition, the accompanying rock band overpowers the singers voices. Even by the third performance these problems still hadn't been worked out. But sound problems aside, this Evita is, as Eva describes Buenos Aires, "certain to impress...
...doing more original reporting and refusing to let the campaigns set the daily agenda for their newscasts, they could force the candidates to come out of their cocoons. Then perhaps viewers would witness a return to the bygone days when reporters and editors were the ones who picked the sound bites...
...sour legacy of 1988, an election year that was to substance what cold pizza is to a balanced breakfast. Think of the words and phrases that 18 months of nonstop electioneering have underlined in the political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm of dental patients...
...White House; it would be a bizarre ritual, to say the least, if a President Bush solemnly recited the Pledge of Allegiance each time he stepped into the Oval Office. Dukakis' presidential agenda was almost as shadowy. Even as an underdog presumably liberated from crass campaign calculus, he chose sound-bite slogans over a last chance to talk sense to the American people...