Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot, such as it is, turns on the attempts of the Madonna character to interpose her own project, an adaptation of a high-flown allegorical novel about the risks of living in an overly technologized world. The opaque and overwrought passages that she quotes sound unfilmable. Yet even if the text is drivel -- and it resonates that way from the stage -- its search for meaning touches some inarticulate longing in the secretary who is given it to read and, eventually, in her boss, who for a while joins her quixotic crusade. He starts out trying to seduce...
...Davis exclaims, sitting in an empty Midwestern concert hall listening to the first rehearsal of his new Violin Concerto by the Kansas City Symphony. "I know I wrote slurs over those eighth notes, but they're all jumbled together. They sound like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...
...jazz, it is carefully controlled and expertly planned. Imagine Ellington's lush, massed sonorities propelled by Bartok's vigorous whiplash rhythms and overlaid with the seductive percussive haze of the Balinese gamelan orchestra, and you will have an idea of what both the Concerto and Notes from the Underground sound like...
...entire Harvard community. True, he is well respected among national basketball writers, but that is most likely because they, not reading him daily, are not constantly bombarded with his pro-Celtic drivel. I have heard Harry Caray announce many Cubs games, but Ryan's biased cheerleading makes Caray sound like Judge Joseph Wapner...
This disorder may sound like a mere coldness of temperament. It's not, although it seems to be one of the frostiest rules of society: to care to a certain extent about various individuals around you, you have to distance yourself from the chatterboxes who would have you know every curious thing, and memorize every curious conclusion, about every other human in your hallway. These same petty details, unfortunately, are what often pass for social contact...