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Needless to say, the Ramones are the most pernicious band playing before American audiences today, advocating mindlessness and even lobotomy. And more than any other group, the Ramones--with their phenomenal energy and very frequent schedule--threaten to deafen a significant portion of the American population, leaving the nation helpless in the event of hostile thermonuclear assault...
...after the bags suddenly expand. "When you're firing four large air bags, you can reasonably expect that the car will be a wreck," he warns. "The scheme is safety overkill." Moreover, Government tests show that when air bags explode into shape, the noise (170 decibels) could permanently deafen some motorists. Chrysler officials, going farthest of all, have bluntly informed Douglas Toms, director of the Transportation Department's enforcement agency, that they will simply not install the bags but instead will "pursue our suit in federal court...
...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...