Word: soundproofing
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Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...holder can complain about his point of vantage. The raked, beige, tufted seats offer sight lines of geometric clarity. It is as if the air had been filtered for purer vision. The particular largesse of the Lyttelton is a side stage sealed off from the main stage by a soundproof door. A visiting company from the provinces or abroad-and Hall intends to invite them -can mount its set on the side stage during one of the National's matinees, and then slide it onto the main stage for the evening performance...
...excessively into the lonely quiet that he relishes and believes he needs in order to husband his energy. Richard J. Whalen, once a Nixon campaign speechwriter and thinker, quit in disgust before Nixon entered the White House over just that issue-the specter of a President being in a "soundproof, shockproof bubble." Back in 1972 Whalen wrote: "No potential danger is more ominous in a free society than the secret leaching away of presidential authority from the man the people chose to the men he chooses. To whom are they responsible? To him and their own consciences, of course, which...
...remark was only the latest complaint to get through what once was usually a soundproof wall surrounding the Justices. Court insiders were also talking last week about Justice Rehnquist's failure to disqualify himself on the issue of Army surveillance of civilians; he had defended the practice before a Congressional committee a year ago, when he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney General, and now he had cast the deciding vote that gave it court backing. There was also criticism over last week's failure to decide the abortion cases argued earlier this term, before Rehnquist and Powell were...
...Soundproof Flats. For most of its tenants, Habitat's greatest attraction is the fact that it provides total silence and privacy only five minutes from downtown Montreal. From afar, Habitat looks like a pile of blocks casually stacked by an active child; from within, each of those blocks is an apartment -usually a duplex-with its own uncluttered view, private balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows. Each unit, insulated by thick concrete walls and neoprene stripping, is totally soundproof; floors are double coated with polyurethane for easy cleaning, and walls are washable...