Word: loudnesses
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...Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City announced that Yoshio Taniguchi had won a 10-entrant competition against world-famous architects like Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas to design the museum's $425 million overhaul. Around the world, art lovers and architecture mavens alike responded with a loud, bemused, "Who?" So unknown was the 67-year-old architect outside his native Japan that one confused well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, on selecting "Tony Gucci," a nonexistent Italian architect...
...That loud groaning noise heard across northeast Asia this month was the sound of government officials in three countries realizing, to their horror, that President George W. Bush had been re-elected. One of those three is an implacable and longtime American foe, North Korea. Another is a would-be American global competitor, China. And the third is a U.S. ally, South Korea...
What is your house life like? Loud and busy. Every once in a while, you walk through the house and you realize: I'm alone. The impulse to take off your pants and smoke cigarettes and drink vodka and play loud rock-'n'-roll music is overwhelming, and I've done exactly those things...
...second novel, 23 years after publishing her first. That book, Housekeeping, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award. It is a mainstay of book clubs and lists of the best novels of the 20th century. The anticipation of Robinson's follow-up has been urgent, loud and public. In 2001 even her pastor weighed in. "She seems not to be applying herself to using that gift as much as I hope she would," the Rev. Bruce Fischer told a local newspaper...
...sound clips alongside the air intakes of a beatboxer and poppy organ melodies contrasting with atonal and arrhythmic guitar riffs. The song features possibly the first awesome beatboxing-breakdown in the history of music, and continually eludes predictability with vicissitudes of style and form, quiet regular parts followed by loud irregular parts, and a who-would-have-guessed it fade-out at the end. Considered altogether, the five songs on B EP are extraordinary and delectable sonic morsels, with their calculated intelligence in choice of timing space garnished by the postmodern genre-bending of their stylistic variations...