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...then Byron returns to instrumental masturbation in “Show Him Some Lub,” which mixes chants of different creeds and cities against a frenetic clarinet backdrop. It’s particularly bewildering after the minimalist charm of “Red-Tailed Angels,” and it gives the album the feel of B-side collection instead of a unified work...
...Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing it to pulse with a heartbeat-like lub-dub. This rhythmic motion churns up internal heat, which in turn stirs up moonwide volcanoes...
...report, all 14 patients who benefited from dixogen had a symptom called a third heart sound, an abnormal noise that occurs when the heart strikes the chest wall. The third heart sound, which Johnson says determines who should receive digitalis therapy, is an extra "dub" heard after the normal "lub-dub" sound that the heart makes when heard through a stethoscope...
...communication with man. Without a note from the orchestra, the dancers swoop, leap, writhe and double up in inarticulate agony. But the dance is full of sound-the staccato rhythms of the dancers' feet, their sudden grunts and cries of desperation and, as the pace increases, the amplified lub-dub of a beating heart. A blood-red column rises like a fever thermometer against the black backdrop and dramatically expands to encompass the entire stage. The ballet closes on a muted note of hope: a boy and a girl are dancing together-albeit distantly-and a church organ...
Visually, the Burton Faustus is a darkling carnival of skeletons, candles, caves and necromancy, tricked out with such cinematic hocus-pocus as action shots montaged into a skull's eye sock et and heartbeats lub-dubbed onto the sound track. There is even a bit of bor rowing here too: a film clip of the magnificent charge of the French knights at Agincourt from Olivier's Henry V inexplicably turns up, and it is easily the best thing in the movie...