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DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...
...Devine, that well-named but peculiar fellow whose era fell between Parseghian's and Faust's, won a national championship and two Cotton Bowls. But he lacked the style that this rumpled Cincinnati missionary, with his high-decibel enthusiasm and 174-17-2 prep record, had in spades. The faithful were ready to love Faust before they ever heard his wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness...
...Carla M. Borras ’05 re-deploys her penchant for the shrill as his sister Elektra. In fact, Borras strikes an incredibly emotional chord in addressing, in her Yorick-style, the head of her slain stepfather; however, despite her wit elsewhere, Borras really could ratchet down the decibel level and spread her laudable energy a little more thinly...
...contract" between fans and players, which seems to have been voided. "Over the years, at all sporting events, there's developed a combination of things," says Stern. "First, the professional heckler, who feels empowered to spend the entire game directing his attention to disturbing the other team at any decibel level, at any vocabulary. Then, an ongoing permissiveness that runs the gamut from college kids who don't wear shirts and paint their faces and think that liberates them to say anything, to NBA fans who use language that is not suitable to family occasions...
Whether you use water skis, tubes, kneeboards or wakeboards, the truest test of the powerboat that tows you is its sound system. The new wakeboard tower audio system from Infinity ($1,100; infinitysystems com features an amplifier and waterproof speakers designed to pump high-decibel music up to 50 ft. past the stern--even when you're knifing full throttle through the water. The system includes a microphone that enables people in the boat to talk to whomever they're towing. It may not improve your water skiing, but at least you can have a good sound track...