Word: decibeled
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...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...
...lapse of imagination. Aside from individual practitioners of the dunking art, there are teams who make the stuff a group effort. The University of Louisville's official nickname is the Cardinals, but they prefer the designation "Doctors of Dunk." The pyrotechnics are crowd-rousing, as increased decibel levels in fieldhouses everywhere attest, and at Louisville, fans express their appreciation in more tangible ways: attendance is up an average of 2,000 for each home game...
...heard they sing a song called "Silent Treatment" that exceeds the decibel level of a Jumbo...