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...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Girard and Feore Show the Infinite Varieties of Gould | 7/15/1994 | See Source »

Burrows is less confident about his explanation for the fainter, outer hoops: right next to the shining supernova is a very faint object that may be a tightly compacted neutron star, the remains of an earlier supernova explosion. If so, it could, like other neutron stars, be spewing out twin beams of fast-moving particles. The particles, slamming into the hourglass- shape gas cloud, could have created rings that glowed more brightly after the more recent supernova went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hula Hoops in Space | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Glenn Gould's Infinite Variety | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

...pitying idler and punk whom Hayden plays with an early-Brando sneer. Becoming a father may not make an abusive husband saintly; it often just gives him a new victim to pummel. A compelling actor, Hayden is not enough of a singer -- he loses his way rhythmically and sounds faint in the score's one modernist number, the anthemic Soliloquy ("my boy Bill"), which ends the first act. Sally Murphy is too bland to evoke sympathy as Billy's doormat of a wife, who can't see she's better off without him until after he's dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: This Carousel Doesn't Go Anywhere | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...problems." In movies, when someone says this, there is always a problem. Usually the car is ends up in the middle of nowhere with smoke coming from the hood. Well, that's exactly what happened. Sure enough, as soon as we passed Albany, we started to hear a very faint buzzing sound on the car, and the red emergency light flashed on the dashboard. When we neared the Canadian border, this faint became a loud drumming sound, So about 30 miles from Canada, we pulled the car aside on the road and lifted the hood. Suddenly the car started...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Nudes, Cars, and Montreal | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

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