Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most important, the new Juilliard is quiet. Elaborate soundproofing restrains the musical sawing, singing and pounding of adjacent performers. Meticulously angled walls and ceilings channel sound patterns in scientifically approved directions. (Practice studios, for instance, have no right angles...
...exclusive formal ball will mark Halloween in San Francisco this week. In couturier gowns and elaborately confected masquerades, the couples will whisk around the floor until 2 a.m., while judges award prizes for the best costumes and the participants elect an "Empress." By then the swirling belles will sound more and more deep-voiced, and in the early morning hours dark stubble will sprout irrepressibly through their Pan-Cake Make-Up. The celebrators are all homosexuals, and each year since 1962 the crowd at the annual "Beaux Arts Ball" has grown larger. Halloween is traditionally boys' night out, and similar...
Last year Harvard entered the Penn game as the only undefeated team in the Ivy League. After a sound 2-0 thrashing, the Crimson left the field ranking fourth in the Ivy standings. The Quakers also broke a Harvard ten-game unbeaten streak that morning...
...bosses wouldn't let them turn on the sound, so they watched the festivities on a silent screen: Nixon flapping his arms around like a man possessed, the three astronauts inside their glass cage on board the ship, grinning like monkeys in a wonderfully exotic...
...friends are not all that bad; they could be nice guys if they hadn't just spent a month and a half learning to disguise their prep school accents so they could sound like dock workers...