Word: decibel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, it remains true that Lynyrd Skynyrd was a workman-like but not overly sensational band which took a high-decibel brand of Southern-British boogie and a couple of great songs to the masses. In that mission they became victims, but in the ironic way of these things they have become better loved in death than they probably could have been in life. For those of you who are jumping on the Skynyrd band-plane in fulfillment of this time-honored truism: this album is not for you, it is for people who were fans all along and already...
...rising to "chilly war" level. White House aides had privately suggested that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had lied to the President. Washington's allies were wondering just who was speaking for the Administration. Was it National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who seemed willing to match the Soviets decibel for decibel? Or was it softer-spoken Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, ever the conciliator? Unmistakably, it was time for Carter himself to speak up and clear...
...inspiring warmth of an undraped mannequin in a store window. Her metallic high-pitched voice seems to issue from some implanted accordion, and her stance and gestures suggest those of a badly coordinated puppet. She seems to want to hear her heavenly "voices," but perhaps the decibel count onstage is too high for that...
...reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon (a coke joke). While Studio 54 is fast, loud and frenzied, the month-old New York New York (membership $150) is cool and comparatively low decibel. Borrowing from the Hay den Planetarium, light specialists have devised a laser-beam system that throws streamers of color over the dancers and peppers the floor with shards of light. At one moment, the crowd may be enveloped by a mixture of fog and Faberge; at another, clouds...
...Geneva. So, of course, did Gromyko. As he and Vance posed for photographers beneath a big portrait of Brezhnev at the Soviet mission, a reporter asked him how the talks were going. Said Gromyko: "We are silent like fish." Equally pleasing to the Soviets must be the recent low-decibel level of the Administration's human rights drive...