Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Want to hear the sound of Jabba the Hutt laughing as if he were sitting next to you on the couch? Or how about listening to the rumble of the giant boulder in Temple of Doom bearing down on you? Filmmaker George Lucas and his soundmeister Tomlinson Holman claim that such aural thrills can be provided by their new home sound system, called THX. Holman, an audio-design engineer who created the THX (Tomlinson Holman Experiment) system widely used in theaters, has crafted a six-speaker home version that provides distortion-free sound at high volume and gives listeners...
...Even rocks melt if you apply enough heat. Harvard sometimes seems to be a boulder," Bourke said...
...legal drinking age is 21 in all 50 states, many students fall under the limit. Brewers often engage in promotions that fail to distinguish among students of different ages. Miller Brewing, for example, sponsors Friday afternoon beer bashes for 2,000 students at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Until local high schools complained that their students were tanking up at the free pours, university officials made little effort to screen participants...
Statistical arguments aside, the U.S. tells its own story of concern on the front pages of papers and on local newscasts. Solid wastes, pesticides, oil spills, chemical fertilizers. Ask editors from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Boulder, and they will tell you no story plays so steadily as the devastations of the natural world. And almost anyone who wanders through the country hears it, from coffee shop to filling station...
...given us something positive, a special capacity to look from time to time somewhat further than someone who has not undergone this bitter experience. A person who cannot move and lead a somewhat normal life because he is pinned under a boulder has more time to think about his hopes than someone who is not trapped that...