Word: loudnesses
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...Reygadas sets Silent Light's agenda in the first moments. The film opens with a nearly five-minute time-lapse shot of night sky, stars, dawn slowly breaking and finally full daylight, as the sound track comes alive with loud crickets, braying and mooing, and breathy, muffled screams. Brilliant sunshine bathes the kitchen of a Mennonite farm as the family takes morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of a clock. Esther (Miriam Toews), the mother, raises her eyes; Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr), the father, says, "Amen"; and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After...
...Cricket is on a roll. The economic center of the sport is now in neither Australia nor England, its birthplace, but in India, which last year hosted the first season of a loud, lurid and big-bucks league that features a short and furious version of the game. South Africa is on a roll, too, at least when it comes to sport. After the country won the Rugby World Cup in 2007, its cricketers have proved themselves world beaters. And for once, the description "rainbow nation" genuinely applies; South Africa's cricketers are white, black, mixed race and ethnically Indian...
...After a bucket from captain Andrew Pusar and a defensive stop on the other end, Lin drilled a three to cap the Crimson’s quick 9-4 run to go up 42-31. Aided by the loud crowd behind it, BC responded in force and trailed just 49-43 with 11:42 left...
...blew by Rice for another layup on the next possession. After a bucket from captain Andrew Pusar and a defensive stop on the other end, Lin drilled a three to cap the Crimson’s quick 9-4 run to go up 42-31. Aided by the loud crowd behind it, BC responded in force, and trailed just 49-43 with 11:42 left. But that was as close as the Eagles would get, as Lin answered with a long three in front of Raji, kick-starting...
...trampoline effect, which might give an unfair advantage. But the trampoline effect also causes high-energy rebounding of the club's metal, resulting in the trademark "crack" that Buchanan thinks injured his patient's hearing. "What we've found is thin-faced clubs, both conforming and nonconforming, produce noise loud enough to damage hearing," he says...