Word: decibel
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...Decibel level of city traffic...
...Decibel level of Brood X periodical cicadas, back this summer in the Eastern U.S. after a 17-year absence...
...Decibel level of a Fourth of July firecracker...
...much as the next movie man, but as creative as they are, they’re not much more than eye-candy adventures to eat popcorn by. It’s a miracle that America’s film critics aren’t so battered by high-decibel Bruckheimer clones by summer’s end that they lose all objectivity and shower kisses on the dumb, earnest Oscar bait of early fall...
...just the blowers that are driving Rueter daft. It's the boom cars--those high-decibel, low-frequency speakers on wheels that cause your windshield to buzz and your eardrums to pulse when they pull up next to you at a stoplight. It's the car alarms too, as well as the barking dogs and the banging garbage trucks and the screaming airplanes and the roaring highways and the plaster-cracking sound tracks in action movies that shake the seats not only in the theater where an action movie is being shown but in the one on the other side...