Word: decibeled
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...Nigerian governments agree that ruthless action is necessary. For these kids, brought from their homelands around the globe for scientific study, are extraordinary beings. Evil-eyed, they can will adults to do their bidding, even to commit murder and suicide. They can charge a dilapidated organ with such high-decibel energy that it becomes a ghastly weapon against their would-be assassins. Anything that one of the six sees, hears or reads is, on the instant, telepathically absorbed by the others. "Do you still want to take them to your embassies?" asks a wry observer...
...Joneses would much prefer waking up at 8, but they cannot turn off the radio: it is in the Smiths' apartment next door. Down the hall in 17-F live the Browns, who loathe Handel. Yet their living room is knee-deep in Water Music every night -high-decibel seepage from the Greens' stereo...
...German Radio-Cologne Electronic Studios; Deutsche Grammophon) comes on like the launching of a thousand spaceships and fades out like a souped-up sound track for Hitchcock's The Birds; it happens to be the most communicative example of electronic music yet recorded. Midst a welter of high-decibel cacophony, the voice of a boy soprano speaks...
...pumping up and down the halls and roaring in and out of the offices." For the first time since 1954, when Romney roared in to save little American Motors from the junk heap, the company last week introduced its new cars without him. They showed that more than the decibel count had changed on Mahogany...
...television season may go down in history as the year that canned laughter made its greatest comeback. Every new sitchcom (adspeak for situation comedy) is a masterpiece of electronic control: three hees and a hah for a cracking knuckle or a lifted eyebrow, a two-decibel avalanche for a two-bit joke...