"Have you heard of Unit 731?" "Unit of what?" I say.
After hearing each unit of this "New Look at Black History," the students respond to ques tions designed to determine their comprehension.
As it builds from simple to complex, you hear metric units within metric units, and then, dizzyingly, yet faster units within those smaller ones.
Yes, I'd have to actually "hear" the unit in action to say whether or not it's worth plopping down cash for, but it certainly looks aesthetically attractive.
By now you must have heard of Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army: "an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and around [their] white tower," claims the New York Times, who were themselves recently owned by the 1337 h4ck3r5 of the 61398.
The majority (95%, n = 270) of the sample reported they had heard of units, with half of those who reported not having heard of units subsequently estimating drinking guidelines or number of units in drinks.
In the go-go years before the big bust in the nineteen-eighties, I began hearing the word "unit," slang for a hundred million dollars — the amount that you needed to have to be judged genuinely rich in Texas.
When playing the second movement of his violin concerto Chaconne: Body Through Which the Dream Flows I feel as if I am looking at myself as a half-dead body in an intensive care unit, hearing the beeps of the respirator and seeing an infinite film of past memories.
Although 95% of the sample had heard of units, estimation of the amount of alcohol in a self-defined usual glass was inaccurate with 58% spirit estimates, and 48% wine estimated greater than 0.5 units more or less than what was actually poured.
He uses a metaphor of making a wrong turn when driving with a GPS unit, and hearing it say, "Recalculating".
