Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALTHOUGH USUALLY striking, the musical's extravagant production occasionally works to its disadvantage. More than once, the slides appear at the wrong time, and the film's projector din seems better suited for a driver's education classroom than a Shubert theater. Because of so many microphones, whenever the high-stepping military chorus marches downstage the theater echoes unpleasantly. Even more disconcerting is the mikes' tendency to make songs should like a cast album on a stereo, further distancing the audience. "All our subtleties are gone," star Altay said after a show...
...brick bungalow across the street from the plane's deadly path. "There was a wall of flame all across the street," he said. "I thought I was in hell." The flames were shooting 200 ft. into the gray sky. Gas tanks of burning cars erupted, adding to the din. "It was all rain and fire," said May Maggiore, a grandmother. "I ran up and down the street screaming...
...preach the word of God in public or bring up their children with religious instruction. As a result of Graham's confusion, or perhaps ignorance, about the reality of Soviet religious persecution, his otherwise laudable and certainly sincere concern over the nuclear arms race got lost in the din of criticism that followed...
...paths along the Charles were beautiful but deserted as we set out, all the real runners were at the Marathon, which pleased Joanne and me. You see, we have become some what of a spectacle along the River paths because we like to yell at each other over the din of our Walkman stereos (she has a tape player which is always blasting the Go Gos, and I have an FM model...
...nine lengthy meetings with White House staffers and Cabinet officers to sort out the conflicting requests of the various departments. The President is faced with the need to pinpoint some $40 billion in new spending cuts for fiscal 1983, and then get a restive Congress to agree. So the din of budget clashes is destined to grow even louder and prove all but interminable...