Word: dinned
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...what he cannot do at all. He cannot initiate action, only total recall. His play has already happened before it goes onstage. His characters are not people but composites researched out of faded newspapers; they are set forth, not in the music of evocative monologues, but in the unrelenting din of talk, talk, talk...
...prurient cuckold (James Mason) spews ugly revelations about her husband and his wife. Cornered under a hair dryer at a beauty salon, she blanches, feeling her own anguish cruelly parodied in a chance conversation with a venomous, cast-off drudge. And her spectacular scenes with Finch, pitched against the din of a more or less anonymous army of progeny, are a litany of love, hate, lies, jealousy and excruciating domestic boredom...
...known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...
From the very start of the meeting, it was obvious that the Goldwater forces had a clear-cut majority. They clapped and shouted loudly for their speakers. The alternative clapping from the moderates added to the din...
...battle the crowd before it blocks the press section of the speaker's platform; they must scramble again to the buses and then out of the buses back onto the plane. The only time available to the press to write their stories is during flight, and there is a din of clattering typewriters on the plane at all times. Then there is a furious competition to reach the press telephones, and stories must be wired or called in rapidly so that a substantial part of the President's spech is not missed...