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Calvino explores hearing and smell with comparable insight and deftness. In A King Listens, a monarch whose power depends on his remaining glued to his ! throne becomes a paranoiac, his mind an echo chamber of suspicion, as he is deprived of all stimuli -- save for the aural -- from beyond his hall. And in The Name, the Nose, three characters try to track down unknown women whose odors have intoxicated them...
...objectives [of Lit & Arts B are] to increase students' visual and aural perception, to give them some knowledge of the means of artistic expression, to enable them to judge quality with discrimination and to acquaint them with a few selected masterpieces...with the greater part of each course left for dealing directly with the masterpieces themselves...
Until now, she said, the public has tended to base its conceptions on what it sees rather than on what it hears whenever visual and aural information have conflicted. "I'm wondering if something natural might not happen as [the public] worries about the economy," she said. "Maybe they will want to hear TV sound more than they want to see TV visuals...
...Point of Collapse" is built around a synthesizer riff of which Depeche Mode would be proud, while "Ahead" mines the dance-rock territory of New order. The menacing "Feed Me" follows the style of latter-day quasi-industrialists SWANS without achieving the genuine horror of the latter's aural experiments. All the above-mentioned bands have each achieved their own niche in modern music. In comparison, Wire's avant-garde...
...YEAR is 1986. God is holding Oral Roberts for ransome. Unless God receives $8 million in unmarked bills in a plain brown paper bag with no coppers and no funny stuff, He swears to strike Oral Roberts down and legally change the names of Roberts` children to Aural, Nasal, and Anal. It is clear that God the terrorist has to be stopped. If not He might start hijacking airplanes...