Word: woof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visual signals are everything: hard-pounding loudspeakers woof and tweet to the strains of Tito Puente, Hansel y Raul and Willie Colon. The songs are mostly rhythmically irresistible salsa songs that combine the heady call-and- response of African music with the electronic surge of rock 'n' roll and the glitzy brass of a Big Band. The dancers move to the beat like a snake to the charmer's call: the hotter the tune, the cooler the step as the men expertly guide the women through the twists and curves of the mambo, the cha- cha-cha, the merengue...
...adding a little brightness, a little tweet to your woof," she says of the technique she is teaching...
...then the nation has had a great change of heart. The change has been so complete that it is difficult today to remember how recently people were blithely ripping out and throwing away the warp and woof of America's cities. In only 20 years, marvels James Marston Fitch, an internationally known preservationist, "the whole balance has radically changed in our favor. I'm astonished at what a complete turnabout there has been in the whole climate of public opinion...
...cataclysmic game drew near, subjects of investigation ranged from the acupuncture marks in Quarterback Jim McMahon's bare backfield to the ghostly timbre of the Bears' Baskerville bark. Regarding that old rallying call, Otis Wilson was asked soberly, "Is it more like an arf or a woof?" The Chicago linebacker deliberated and replied, "More like a woof." On the Patriots' side, Runner Tony Collins was awash in sociological queries about his 15 siblings. Under pressure, he managed to name all eight brothers and six of seven sisters. Several of the Super Bowl's 2,500 journalists strayed off to plumb...
Lowell is a landmark of the historical awareness that HABS has fostered, a symbol that we see our past no longer exclusively in powdered wigs and pewter candlesticks but also in the gritty romance of woof, wharf and smokestack. With its coarse but handsome brick structures bordering on a web of canals, Lowell is a kind of industrial Venice without gondolas. But if its partly abandoned textile mills are to survive, they must be occupied and put to new uses. To promote interest in redevelopment, the HABS team is preparing floor plans and renderings of the most dramatic of Lowell...