Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hooted down by a group of teen-age hecklers, forced to leave the microphone and totter back to his seat. And as his motorcade of crimson station wagons headed upriver into the Long dynasty's traditional heartland, in town after town the audiences were dwindling-and the disturbing sound of hoots and laughter was rising...
...from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull Halsey, 76, died in his sleep of a heart attack...
...time from the Orioles to the White Sox to the Tigers to the Indians, where he began the year on the bench. In Cleveland, Francona was soon coaxing players to pitch to him by the hour in the empty stadium, gradually improved a swing that had always been basically sound. Manager Joe Gordon took a hand. "He got me to swing down on the ball-what he calls 'tomahawk' it-so I'd level out my swing," says Francona. In June, Francona broke into the starting line-up (at first or center-field), last week was hitting...
Dissolving & Sounding. The difference in vibration rate creates a variety of shapes, whose momentary and only semivisible quality makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion...
...good to last. Soon the cracks about "Kathy Grant's husband" began to sound less like jokes than angry jeers. By week's end most of the Sahara crowd were coming around, not to laugh but to learn more about the Crosby clan's squabbles. Gary, the boss of the troupe, made sure no one was disappointed. "My father and I," he told a reporter, "just don't get along any more. Dad did some things last Christmas that I felt were far from right...