on film at the same time. At first, the quality of the sound was55. After many experiments, it was improved. The new movies with sound were called talkies. The first full-length talkie wasThe Jazz Singerin 1927. The movie had both music and speaking. Movies would never be silent again...
C.She was misunderstood by her neighbours. D.She was unfamiliar with everything at school. 6. What does the underlined word “labor” in paragraph 4 probably mean? A.The work of looking after a baby. B.The process of dealing with students. ...
but through pop music. At a Suede gig a couple of months ago, decades collapsed as the solidly Gen X crowd joined lead singer Brett Anderson (56) to belt out the drug-infused lyrics of our distant youth: “So young and so gone . . . ” It was almost unbearably bittersweet....
Let me tell you something, Ilovedme some Jimmy- so much so that I was the one crying when he got shot and was elated that he was staying at Degrassi High, albeit, in a wheelchair. I was jealous when homegirl Trina stole his heart but I was ready for him to love. Once he graduat...
I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story.Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help.One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up.Once again my husband had a way to get...
Before founder James A. Folger passed away, hewroteto his son, who took over the family coffee business that “money-making was always secondary to a good reputation.” In 1951, Folgers launched its first television commercial, and by the end of the decade, Folgers Coffee was a popular sta...
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people. My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard...
In the following decade came Let’s Dance, on the back of which he sold out stadiums and dominated the still-new MTV. Yet through it all, and indeed up until his death in 2016, he kept at least one foot outside the mainstream. I...
with the added attraction of a homegrown sound created by the Quebecois artists of the decade, unique to the landscape and pertinent to the denizens of the period. There was no better musical place to be in the ’70’s- and this was the backdrop that nurtured one of the pioneers of ...
Meanwhile, “Black Hole Sun” became the biggest hit of the band’s career.“A lot of it was just timing,” Cornell later assessed.“Everything was changing at the time– radio was evolving and the perspective of the listening audience was changing. The age of the audience too – a new...