Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investment banking house Lazard Freres and a principal architect of the GE and RCA merger: "In my 35 years of business, I have never seen anything remotely approaching this year's tidal wave of takeovers, mergers and buyouts of every size and shape, including both very good and sound ones and extremely ill- conceived ones...
...including 500 children in an orphanage, Ethiopian MiGs dropped 20 bombs in one day last September. Nine people were killed, including six children, and 23 were wounded. Solomuna's residents now rise before dawn and climb into narrow ravines, where they spend the day huddled under rock overhangs. The sound of a distant MiG one morning instantly silenced several hundred chattering children, as all peered skyward. Ghiday Haile, 33, sat under a rock ledge holding her four-year-old son. "Women who were friends of mine died in the attack," she recalled. "I will never again spend the sunlight hours...
Funny how those so concerned about "public health" sound a lot like those who were concerned about "racial purity"--funny, but not so funny. Storm troopers dressed in medical smocks are no less terrifying and crematoria built in the name of ending an epidemic smell just...
...distinctly cut-rate. The Golden Book videos, for instance, utilize an inexpensive process known as Picturemation, in which a camera simply scans the book's illustrations, adding only bits of animation (an eye blinking, a dog's tail wagging). The few live-action productions for children often look and sound like a school play recorded in someone's basement rec room. Several distributors, meanwhile, have merely rounded up cheap off-network TV programming and labeled it children's video. The widely distributed Kids Klassics offer such less than scintillating fare as an episode of the old Lone Ranger TV series...
...original, the knowledge that Rembrandt applied his brush just here, nowhere else, and never again. Or somebody did. So we wander into that philosophical bramble patch at the edge of the legendary forest where the legendary tree falls and nobody is there to hear whether it makes a sound. Is the famous Etruscan warrior whom the Metropolitan Museum declared a fake some years ago any less handsome than he was back when we thought he was a real Etruscan? Yes, though it is hard to say why, just that he gives us less pleasure than he once did. Even with...