Word: soundproofing
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...rain are starting to splash on the windows--and she has to get to a rehearsal later for a concert she is giving over the weekend. Only Nguyen Quang Huy is oblivious to the coming deluge. The 21-year-old bar owner and music promoter is shut in a soundproof recording studio in his home, coaching a new band...
...most welcome seat fillers at most movie houses, and families are often asked to leave at the first wail. But a growing number of theaters are accommodating parents who want a first-run film experience complete with big screen, Dolby sound and children. The Sonoma Cinemas chain has created soundproof glass rooms in the back of theaters for families. And the independent Parkway Theater in Oakland, Calif., is credited with the creation of "cry nights," special showings at which the audience is made up only of parents and infants...
Shearling slippers but sometimes bare feet, stepping lightly so as not to wake my daughter. My office is just down the hall from my bedroom, though I sometimes work in the bathroom, at the vanity, because the room is soundproof and well...
Feider, who doesn't have definite plans yet, might consider heading to London, where the Four Seasons hotel is auctioning off an antimillennium getaway. The lucky winner will spend the night in a soundproof suite, sans clocks and calendars, watching black-and-white movies and eating dinner from a pre-1950s menu. The anachronistic evening fits the disposition of Britons, most of whom plan to stay home on New Year's Eve, according to a survey of 100,000 by the department store Selfridges. "It reflects the mood of the '90s," says Selfridges marketing manager Nicola Lloyd. "People...
...more rare blooms than any other, ranging from Joseph Pulitzer (1874-1911), publisher of the New York World, to the very much alive Richard Mellon Scaife, 66, publisher of Pittsburgh's Tribune Review. Pulitzer suffered from nervousness so acute that he lived out his later years in double-insulated, soundproof rooms. As for Scaife, he spent some of his Mellon family megabucks (Alcoa, Mellon Bank) to buy a suburban newspaper, give it a Steel City moniker and publish an unending string of kooky conspiracy theories centered on the Clintons...