Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...London's Holy Trinity, schoolteacher Denise Williams says she "came here a little skeptical," but soon was caught up in the fervor. "There was a lovely feeling of warmth and peace." Secretary Jo Luzquinos "felt as though I had chains around my wrists, and I prayed for release." Says Andy Bush, a bookshop proprietor: "If this experience means a deeper love for God, and therefore others, then it is a good thing...
...hall results in an acoustic clouding that renders the sound more two-dimensional than one might expect. Very exposed passages (e.g. the wind soli at the beginning of the second symphony's Allegretto grazioso) suffer less from the reverberation, and the sheen makes up for the slight lack of warmth. A final quibble: the effect of dynamic contrast is also dulled to a certain extent, with the ends seemingly a bit truncated at both ends of the spectrum...
Technical labels aside, the sound is quite remarkable. There is little of the artificial aftertaste that I find with Telarc's 21 bit sound (and to a lesser extent, Sony's 21 bit Super Bit Mapping Technique), although the warmth of the sound is not always consistent, now is it always as viscerally satisfying as some of the products developed using traditional recording methods...
Passing the shiny carts of commercial food and the the yells describing the warmth of cigarettes and the coolness of soda, the real Deadhead walked toward the stadium. He had tickets; they were ordered through Grateful Dead Ticket Sales (GDTS) so as to avoid the outrageous service charges that Ticketmaster attaches to most events while their operators drone on in what is rarely recognizable as English. Pearl Jam, currently in self-imposed stadium exile due to differences with Ticketmaster, would do well to adopt a policy similar to the Dead's; start a hotline and provide a mechanism whereby fans...
...From the moment of my birth, I have always walked alone," writes Zhirinovsky. "I grew up in a situation where there was no kind of warmth from anybody -- not from relatives or from friends and teachers. I lived the greater part of my life without almost a single happy day . . . It seems to have been my fate that I never experienced real love or friendship...