Word: droning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sonorous--perhaps soporific. But aided by Roger Deakins' pristine camera work and the euphoric drone of Philip Glass's score, Scorsese devises a poem of textures and silences. Visions, nightmares and history blend in a tapestry as subtle as the Tibetans' gorgeous mandalas of sand. For some, Kundun will be a slog. For the open mind and eye, though, this is rapture in pictures...
...through the hills of Denmark. Yet, after a hundred pages of strolling through the highways and byways of Europe, the laid-back pace of the prose begins to grate on the nerves. Morris seems almost the quintessential kindly, old British matron and as a result, listening to her drone on is like having an especially long lunch with your grand-mother. She usually has good stories to tell, but, boy, does she ramble...
...Roll, located in Porter Square at 1908 Mass Avenue, is Chinese food and not much more. The atmosphere is about as rockin' as the Boston Philharmonic--the only audible music is the dull drone of '80s tunes from the shop next door. However, even this music is drowned out by the sounds of the sizzling wok in the open kitchen...
...greatest diversity of color and texture from the instrument. Perhaps one of the most dramatic works on the program, the piece's opening gestural fragments are later contrasted with homophonic and polyphonic textures. Arriving at a moving climax, Kissel superimposed complex passage work over a furiously pounded drone in the bass...
...This has been one of the most rewarding jobs I've ever had--spiritually and intellectually," Valcovic says above the drone of National Public Radio's newscast...