Word: unison
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...place on the U.N.'s marble podium. Thus, there was no time for Third World delegates to launch the automatic barrage of anti-American complaints. With unusual attentiveness, the packed General Assembly listened to Moynihan; the silence was broken only by the rustling of paper as delegates, in unison, turned pages of copies of the text placed by the U.S. mission at every desk...
...door," Elton explains. "They think the car belongs to the royal family." He is greeted by the puzzled expressions and fading smiles of people disappointed at seeing a diminutive Hobbit. The bowing doorman and salesmen inside Cartier could not be more pleased. "Good morning, Mr. John," they chime in unison. "Can we help you with some gifts...
Tilting and swaying in unison, the two machines gained altitude. Saigon lay below, brown and smoky in the afternoon light, its serpentine river cutting a wide and winding swath through the city. I glanced at my watch: 3:52, five hours and ten minutes since our evacuation had commenced at the Continental Palace Hotel. I tried to pick out the hotel from the air, but we were already too high, slipping southeast over veined paddyfields toward...
None of the essays, poems, stories, or letters in the book is signed. It is a collective production, but three individual voices can be heard distinctly throughout, raised sometimes in unison and sometimes in opposition, sometimes bouncing off and echoing one another. The result is, as one of the authors has said a "trialectic...
...actors subject the audience to rhetorical harangues supposedly broadcast over Radio Havana, speeches that do little to explain the action or the characters. A line like "it is the duty of all revolutionaries to behave as revolutionaries no matter what country they are in" will be shouted in unison over and over to the sound of a drumroll as if to engrave it on the audience's memory. A general confusion is created by the shouting, the quick shifts of scene, and the fact that you're never sure which actor is supposed to be which character at any given...