Word: unison
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...alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five tiers of cages, the earsplitting clash of steel against steel as hundreds of cell doors slammed shut in unison; gone was the cavernous, clattering mess hall, whose ambiance was an invitation to riot. Sheriff Rufo and Boston had just bought into the new architecture of justice...
...fourths), says the eager second-grader as he holds up a card with the fraction spelled out in Japanese hiragana script and numerals. Then a classmate selects a segmented triangle that illustrates the fraction. "Atte imasuka?" (Is that correct?) asks the teacher from Tokyo. "Hai," says the class in unison as little hands go up to answer the next question...
...three bullet-headed, blue-colored actors move about the stage in eerie, wordless unison. They bang away at kettledrums while squeezing tubes of paint onto the drumheads, creating volcanic eruptions of color. They stuff handfuls of Cap'n Crunch cereal into their mouths, then join in a symphony of amplified chomping. They entice an audience member onstage for a banquet of Twinkies; suddenly cream filling spurts out of their chests. By the end of the evening, with strobe lights flashing and electronic music pulsing, the audience is engulfed by a tidal wave of crepe paper streaming from the balcony...
...some noise," Minicucci announces as he tells the audience to move closer. The band starts with Love Is in the Air and Minicucci quickly works up a sweat as he bounces, points, claps and raises his hands to the beat of the music. The players wield their mallets in unison, pounding out a strident, pulsing beat. A number of the Choate students stand up and clap. Others follow, and some dance around as the sounds of well-known tunes like Downtown rebound off the gym walls...
Russians have said there are really only two words in their language: ura (hurrah) and uvy (alas). After generations of being forced to cheer, 286 million people now seem to be lamenting in unison. What's more, they are | booing the man who empowered them to do so. Gorbachev may deserve criticism for having not yet abolished the State Planning Commission, and numerous central ministries are still obstructing reform. But he has unquestionably dismantled the Ministry of Fear. For that he gets astonishingly little thanks...