Word: louder
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...through a storm of bass and beats so deafening that a full-size couch is actually lurching off the ground, like a great green whale preparing to breach. Realizing that he can't be heard, Dre touches a button on the mixing board and the music stops. "I need louder cellos," he says in a normal voice to the recording-studio technician. Then quietly to himself, "Cellos make everything sound evil...
...Welles had an over-lapping commitment: "The Shadow" was on from 5:30 to 6:00. So he had less than two hours to get to the CBS studio, run through the dress rehearsal and make changes before the show aired. We can hear Welles calling out directions. "Louder." Then (in the middle of one of his intimate speeches) "Quiet in the studio!" And an annoyed aside, perhaps to Houseman: "Will you cue people? I?M not running this show...
...years, Jesse Helms has tormented liberals in the Senate. Now the buzz is getting louder in Washington and his home state of North Carolina that the 79-year-old ultraconservative will soon announce his plans to retire when his fifth term ends next year...
...Bush could convince his friend, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, to squawk even louder than Jack Welch, he might get those 2004 soccer-mom votes...
...Front rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, a country with bountiful diamond fields. Taylor, who escaped from an American prison before returning to Liberia and fighting a bloody "liberation" war, denies he backs the RUF and says he is under attack from America and Britain. The President's cries grew louder a few weeks ago when the United Nations banned all travel abroad by Liberian officials and Taylor's relatives, except for direct trips to the U.N. in New York...