Word: loudnesses
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...petals, 360[degrees] swirls as the bride descends the staircase, a low-angle shot of the groom in his kilt, a killer closeup of Sting's molars as he sings Ave Maria and--big finish--a plateful of haggis thrown at the camera. The whole film would be very loud and would last about six seconds...
...years. "This is my first protest since Nixon bombed Cambodia in 1972," said Brown, 46. Both men are Washington locals but claim they haven't felt stirred to come out and protest anything. Now they're fired up and when the parade's security advance drives past they deliver loud boos and hisses...
...morning at the nub end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta walked into a senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room waving a copy of USA Today. Holding the paper aloft, Podesta read the headline out loud: "Clinton actions annoy Bush." The article detailed the new rules and executive orders the outgoing President was issuing in his final days, actions aimed in equal measure at locking in Clinton's legacy (in areas like environmental protection) and bedeviling his successor. "What's Bush so annoyed about?" Podesta asked with a devilish smile. "He's got four...
...traditional (violins, etc) and modern (electric guitars, etc.) instruments. The Orquestra kicked things off with an ear-splitting version of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - that's the theme from "2001: A Space Odessey" for those of you who don't follow classical music. The group was so startlingly loud I didn't really look up to see whether they were actually playing "Also Spach Zarathustra" or whether it was prerecorded. I was doubled up in surprise. When the sound subsided, Milton Nascimento, one of the heroes of Brazilian music, came out and sang a duet of John Lennon...
...Coleman, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz) and who hardly shows up at all (many--no, most--vocalists, Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole and his trio, Erroll Garner, Johnny Hodges), which is an inadvertent tribute to the immensity of the legacy that Burns mines broadly, but beautifully. There has also been loud dissatisfaction within the ranks of some jazz players and fans about the orthodoxy of Burns' taste, the safe selectivity of his classicism, the fact that he kisses off jazz's past quarter-century rather quickly in the last episode and only suggests where jazz might be heading in a brisk...