Word: droningly
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...suck live," said Nick Lowe, when asked for comment about Rockpile's recent break-up. This self-effacing humor makes these bands sound so fresh, but also limits the market for them in this country. Where Adam and the Ants, a group that dons warpaint and drone on and on about "Ant-people" have become instant stars, the faceless three-minute ditty men, covering classic pop songs and penning their own to match, are buried forever...
...Jacobi makes his debut at Broadway's ANTA Theater a thumping virtuosic triumph. He is unfazed even by the giant Junglegym of a set. Toward the end of the play, Senya pleads with the faceless state: "Give us the right to whisper." This production usurps the right to drone...
...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
...nearly impossible to pull off because it is difficult to satisfy an audience that inevitably realizes the point of the play is that there is no point. This production aspires mightily, but the nature of the material remains overwhelming. The actors cannot maintain the mesmeric quality required for the drone of meaninglessness that continues throughout the evening. After the third or fourth "nothing to be done," or "we're waiting for Godot," we feel an incredible urge to escape. But Beckett won't let us get away that easily. Godot is three hours of mental torment; characters lisp absurdities while...
About the only time rebel spirits flag is when they hear the helicopters, for the Soviets' control of the air is total. During the day the Kunar valley echoes with the drone of Mi-8 utility choppers shuttling men and supplies from Chaghasaray up to Asmar or down to Jalalabad. The danger increases as dusk approaches. It is then, when a man's shadow is longest, that the armor-plated Mi-24 helicopter gunships come in low on their final patrols...