Word: soundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seen their public pension funds devastated amid the historic decline in the markets—losses of 20 to 30 percent over the past few months have been widely reported—city officials said that Cambridge is poised to ride out the turbulence, cushioned by a history of sound budgetary management and fiscal conservatism...
...carbon levels are destructively high, and we must negotiate with all other consumer nations to configure a sustainable energy diet.” Page said he wasn’t sure how long it would take for 350 rings in Memorial Church, where the bells are controlled electronically, to sound. “It’s not some freshman up in that chapel pulling the bell 350 times,” he said. “It will basically be me sitting in the basement trying to count 350 rings and stop the bells.” The synchronous...
...stunning, and their sheer beauty would risk descending into sentimentality were it not for the vacuum-like silence that accompanies each of his films.“I realized that once I adjusted to the silence, that the cinema had a chance to articulate in a way that sound film didn’t,” Dorsky says. The absence of any sound at all erases what seems to be, for him, an extraneous context that limits the viewer’s ability to become a part of the experience. “Spatially, you can torque the film...
...evolve from classic pop songs to deeper and more troubling terrain. It takes time to appreciate why a band would want to do something different and surprise those that fell in love with them in the first place.Los Campesinos! have taken on this challenge, trying to develop their original sound without losing their core fan base. Their new LP, “We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed,” comes just six months after their debut album, “Hold on Now, Youngster...,” and the difference between the two albums is shocking. Whereas...
...this band’s autobiography, “The Clash,” a big pink book. But maybe it’s appropriate. The Clash, after all, were a band that refused to bow to anyone’s expectations about how they should look, act, or sound, and yet much of their legend has been colored by words written by others. Perhaps the pink cover is the band’s way of saying, “This is what really happened.” “The Clash” contains the band?...