Word: deafening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deafen the audience. Cudgel it severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...proud of their toughness, saw the open casket with Miles's "colors," a sleeveless jacket bearing the Hell's Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly deafen the bystanders as the cortege gunned its way to the cemetery. "We wanted to see he got a proper burial," explained one sorrowing Angel. "Mother would have wanted it this...
Legal Nuisance. Spater notes that governmental noisemakers such as the Air Force are even freer to deafen their neighbors. For one thing, neither federal nor local government can be sued unless it consents. Some state laws specify that no activity called for by statute "can be deemed a nuisance." And while the U.S. Constitution (Fifth Amendment) guarantees just compensation for private property taken for public use, says Spater, "taken" means invaded by physical action-not mere noise...
...film is stark but never static; Kurosawa impels his drama with demonic drive. From its first frenzied episode of plunging stallions and roaring knights, the film hurtles doomward like a great black boulder flung from a catapult. The spectator scarcely has time to realize, as the images deafen and the noises decorate his imagination, that he is experiencing effects of cinema seldom matched in their headlong masculine power of imagination. Among them...