Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sound fair...
...victims had not lived to carry their tales across the border. In a primitive medical clinic, Caglayan Cucen, a Turkish doctor, said he would never forget treating a little Kurdish girl for an injured foot. "She was crying and crying," he said. "Then I realized that there was another sound just outside: hundreds of the Kurds, hundreds of them, had begun to cry with...
Sefika Ali, 20, a pretty Kurdish woman in a soiled yellow dress, was cooking breakfast for her husband and three children when she heard the sound of aircraft. The Iraqi warplanes started dropping bombs on Butia, the village in northern Iraq where she lived. "I felt something wrong in my eyes, and I started to vomit," she says. "We knew what it must be, so we all drank a lot of milk and then...
Abandon all substance, ye who enter here. This is the realm of television, not politics. Issues are passe. What matters is style and image, sound bites and photo opportunities...
What is unfortunate is that television and the daily newspapers, forced to produce a Bush and Dukakis story each day, feed the illusion that the candidates are conducting a dialogue with the electorate. Sound bites aside, little that either contender is saying provides a fresh glimpse of what he might do in office. Bush's two major recent policy addresses -- on the environment and on foreign-policy goals -- were recycled versions of earlier speeches gussied up with new applause lines. Dukakis won front-page headlines for his innovative, if poorly detailed, proposal to allow college students to repay their loans...