Word: aural
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...secrets of conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that Johnny's thesis at the University...
...certain tattoo and piercing emporium presents a smorgasbord of aural delights for Saturday night at the Middle East. Pino Bros. Ink sponsors Endway, Haloburn, Beyond the Embrace, the Hidden and Morgan Knockers. 18+. $9. 8 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East. (ECMV...
...We’re very much busy in visual stimulation,” he said. “We also need to excite our aural capacities...
Their newest album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned begins strongly, seeming to pick up where The Fat of the Land left off. “Spitfire,” the album’s opening track, is a blood-pumping electronic anthem that plays like the aural equivalent of a shot of adrenaline to the heart. Much like Oasis’s “Fucking in the Bushes,” there’s simply no sitting still while listening to this song. Sadly, however, the remaining twelve tracks come nowhere near to living up to this high standard...
...boyband-filled playlist (“Look, they even have the little-known trance remix of MmmBop!”), the only sound to be heard in the Reading Room is that of sheer productivity itself, or more specifically, the irritatingly incessant tapping of computer keyboards. Here is conclusive aural proof of the awesome industriousness of the surrounding scholars—a sound which invariably seems to increase in volume directly proportionate to one’s own acute sense of writer’s block...