Word: eardrum
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...450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with one's opponent. To showcase this feast of the senses, several major luxury chains--including...
...high-energy show that almost overcomes these obstacles. Although some cynics may write the show off as the precessor to such noise-fests as Stomp and Tap Dogs, Noise/Funk is much more than a mere display of men creating sounds with everyday objects. Although it starts off with an eardrum-shattering intro, the tone of the show quickly quiets down and the real story begins...
...matchup between the Big Os was almost enough to block out all the dancing girls, jumping boys, fireworks, laser lights, eardrum-pounding music and halftime motocrosses that are part of the show in Orlando. The Dream vs. Shaq is the present vs. the future, bop vs. rap, ballet vs. the World Wrestling Federation, humility vs. bravado, Mecca vs. Madison Avenue. It is also a game, as O'Neal...
...social outcasts at the school, in Egawa's account he was also a bully. An ex-teacher recalled that, when chastised, he threatened to burn down the dormitory, then quibbled that he could not be punished for just saying something. One classmate is said to have suffered a broken eardrum at his hands, and another reportedly told him in high school, after he had repeatedly failed to win any class office, "You are good to take care of people, but we are still scared of you." His fortunes at the school ballot box offered little encouragement...
...Uptown records, sees the unplugged style spreading. "Jodeci, in its upcoming album, is doing an acoustic song," he says. "Babyface did an acoustic-guitar song, When Can I See You. I'm sure some of that was inspired by Unplugged." Even the Rolling Stones, the nearly fossilized progenitors of eardrum-rending rock, are rumored to be planning an acoustic album...