Word: din
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nagla's outraged cry echoed high above the din of words spoken during the U.N. population conference that ended last week in Cairo. Female circumcision was part of an official agenda that included the subject of women's control over their sexual destinies, and CNN's shocking footage briefly dominated the dialogue among conference participants. It also left their Egyptian hosts angrily on the defensive...
...That'll cut crime," said Bill Dirr, 69, a retired service manager with Pitney Bowes. Jim Holian, 55, a gunstock manufacturer, grumbled that "instead of paying for kids to play basketball at 2 a.m., we should be building more prisons." Friends nodded furiously as Holian lambasted Clinton over the din of 500 shooters standing in a row 1.5 miles long and blasting away, part of a 10-day-long ritual slaughter of 4.5 million clay pigeons. The only thing thicker than the gunpowder that laced the air was the cynicism directed toward both Clinton and Congress. Said Bob Walden...
...this comes across more as a quadruple concerto than as chamber music. They clearly try to make an effort at ensemble, but Stern refuses to bend his pitches down and to liven his dry tone, Ax hardly ever thinks of balance, Laredo gets lost in the acoustic din when not playing his solos, all while Yo-Yo Ma tries to play down the middle...
...sound, Moxy Fruvous gets a tremendously impressive sound from only a few instruments. These four guys combine excellent a cappella four part harmonies with acoustic guitar, accordion, snare drum and hand percussion. Imagine They Might Be Giants mixed with all-acoustic Phish, then add in a touch of Harvard Din and Tonics...
...what's it sound like?" you ask. Initially, a din: Knox is just one guy, but he can be just as aggressively distorted as any six-piece overamplified noise band. Listen again, though, and the songs get very clear: over twenty of them, almost every one with its own simple chord structure, a single, simpler, cycling rhythm, and a riff likely to burrow into the average listener's inner ear and take up permanent residence. (Chris Knox himself favors disgusting metaphors, too--check out some of his cover...