And there, for a moment, the universe screeches to a halt.
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PHILADELPHIA — Every Thursday, Reece Whitley's busy life screeches to a halt.
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He's insouciant about the deed but his teacher screeches her astonishment.
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"A surgical strike is a must on JNU," screeches one recent tweet.
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The animal's distressed screeches continued as it dangled, suspended in the air.
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Male barn owls woo females with screeches and gifts of dead rodents. DAWWWW.
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"We start hearing this noise — [screeching noise] — he's squeaking … he screeches," Stamos explained.
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It hacks and screeches, especially early in the morning right outside my window.
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At one point, our driver screeches to a halt—at a green light.
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Honestly, the episode where Floppy the Dolphin's notes are all just screeches of EEEE!
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In the 1990s she pioneered stroke-by-stroke screeches, delivered apparently regardless of exertion.
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In all likelihood, the screeches belong to owls nestled in the hotel's upper floors.
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These weird blips, screeches, and swoops are sure to make your hair stand on end.
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"Bang Bang" is the rock-inspired tune with taut sounding guitar strings and playful screeches.
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That means if one machine goes down, the whole operation screeches to a halt, Blystone said.
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The screeches of three of his abandoned parrots echo inside an empty ballroom hanging with crystal chandeliers.
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Centered around the trauma of a lost love, Lamar's performance shifted between wailing screeches to woeful laments.
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Months later, the boy still screeches even as Caceres rocks him on her chest, sometimes until dawn.
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The piece is an early noise-scape of howling screeches produced by continuously sliding furniture over the floor.
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This event feels like the HQ for bring your kids to work day: So. Many. High-pitched. Screeches.
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E. Cetaceans and intelligence F. Dolphin clicks and screeches The student research created a runway to speak about echolocation.
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Suddenly, an audience member taking the wrong path to the bathroom screeches her dusty Vans to a halt beside us.
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From its naysaying title (from a Talking Heads song), "This Ain't No Disco" screeches like a repressive, single-message scold.
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Sounds of 17th-century natural life in Manhattan — chirps, caws, groans, croaks, screeches — are now available on the website Unsung.
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Game of Thrones sound designer Paula Fairfield layers a number of noises — including canine sounds — together to create the dragons' screeches.
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Rowling's script periodically screeches to a halt to putty in those storylines, a tactic perhaps more conducive to novels than movies.
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He likes to harass her and often screeches at her until she moves and he feels like he has her attention.
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Ma screeches at her smartphone, irritating the older white woman next to her, who then becomes the target of Ma's rage.
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Shane often contorts his voice into twisted up shapes that sound as much like industrial screeches as they do human vocalizations.
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Rattling, scratchy percussion dominates, often centered around a rigid bassline plus various hisses and screeches muscling in and messing with the rhythm.
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But the musicians in "78/52" contend that the scene would have been nothing without the violin screeches composed by Bernard Herrmann.
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Meanwhile, the larger Curiosity rover presents an utter cacophony of screeches as its own metal wheels traverse the rocks of the MarsYard.
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New Yorkers' commutes then are ruined when the subway train screeches to a halt and crews work to figure out what happened.
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Casting my mind back, all I could remember was an ex named Janice who screeches and a turkey jammed on somebody's head.
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It's a tone that screeches as the play becomes darker, especially in the sequences involving Paul's gulling of a naïve aspiring actor.
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It is why a finger sings on the rim of a wine glass or screeches on the outside of an inflated balloon.
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Now she is sitting, telling someone she's on her way to 23rd St as the train screeches to my stop on 8th.
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After all, if every machine screeches to a stop for every unpredictable human, we'll have soon millions of terrified robots choking the streets.
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In one scene, Euron can be seen looking up at the sky, eyes wide with fear, as a dragon screeches in the background.
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Screeches of "get out of the water!" elicited chuckles from the VIP viewers watching the film from inflatable boats on the swimming pool.
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Actual fighter-plane engines "sounded kind of wimpy", she recalls, so she concocted her own substitute from big-cat growls and monkey screeches.
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As this shitshow of a presidential election screeches to a halt today, we offer our very own list of DC's most presidential restaurants.
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When daily life screeches (inconveniently and tragically) to a halt, we're able to clearly see the human impact we have on the world.
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When its engine needs work, this car "screeches like a wild animal," and teeth, eyes and even plodding feet appear, mysterious and terrific.
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A retro blue-grey minivan with the license plate "ROCK3R" screeches to a halt on a curbside and three men determinedly hop out.
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This is to be expected: In general, noise-canceling technology reduces low-frequency sounds, not high-frequency noises like screeches or babies screaming.
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Those taxi horn blasts, subway screeches or jarring police-car whoops: She hears them as pure — or often out-of-tune — pitch tones.
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In the end, there are a handful of sudden screeches and other loud noises intended to jolt, and a few produce the intended result.
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A cacophony of railway noise helps build a sense of monotony and tension: the chug of the train carriages, the screeches on the tracks.
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Jalen Hurts, Alabama's sophomore quarterback, was besieged by rushers and also harassed by the appropriately eagle-like screeches of the Jordan-Hare Stadium crowd.
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Musically, it's more of the (very welcome) same— Napalm Death- and Insect Warfare-worshipping razor-sharp riffs, punchy drumming, snotty screeches, massive breakdowns, and all.
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The price for escape is rough — June gets her feet sliced to bits with a steel branch, as Aunt Lydia screeches at her about redemption.
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The chorus is one of those long screeches that have anchored the biggest pop hits in recent years, from singers like Katy Perry and Sia.
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It's actually sweet to see Mer's sister so protective of her as Meredith screeches for her bed buddy to be thrown out of the house.
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Eventually the music takes on a ritualistic whirl until it screeches to a halt with just the word "rozy" — roses — intoned as if by zombies.
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TAVERNISE: But not just, like, slows down, and puts on the brake and pulls up, but, like, screeches up, practically bumping up onto the curb.
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If heebie-jeebies are screeches and creaks, soft things are a major chord, resonant with well-being, reassurance, forgiveness, and even—what the hay—love.
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The AirPods Pro fared better on the train, where the Caltrain car screeches were muted, but the conductor's voice over the loudspeaker could be heard clearly.
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Arca's album Mutant is a great example, combining all sorts of alien sounds and screeches into a dense aural canopy that can easily overwhelm mediocre headphones.
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The scraping of metal on metal, of a station creaking in its orbit; of rustling pages, awaiting-command computer terminals and strange, so very foreign screeches.
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LGBTQ Americans are also into leather daddies gyrating in assless chaps, despite screeches this month from conservative pundits and LGBTQ critics who say pride is too raunchy.
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But in my version of the Heaven's Vault story, the robot is an inescapable pain in the ass who screeches in fear at the most mundane shit.
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Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth were 15-years-old and their live shows were experimental and scattered, screeches and screams undercut by mellow keys and soft melodies.
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So is tempering hummable moments of pleasure, usually in the form of guitar hooks, with well-placed blats, screeches, glassy surface layers, and other assorted alienation effects.
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"I want to work!" screeches a kratt, voicing the mantra of gadgets that find idleness so intolerable they view it as a reason to kill their makers.
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As bleak and weightless as deep space, these tracks are driven by scabrous beats and the xenomorphic screeches of two entities who call themselves Poozy and False Prpht.
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The A7 III clicks away at 10fps, too, but it can shoot 177 JPGs or 89 RAW images before its buffer fills up and shooting screeches to a halt.
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Then the gallery becomes an aural aviary, a symphony of screeches and warbles that are, on careful listening, the names of well-known male artists, contemporaries of Ms. Lawler's.
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It's eminently listenable, eerie and fun, with rollicking bass lines and fuzzed-out screeches, the kind of thing that refuses to fade into the background like many scores do.
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Numbers on the last month's consumption is not available, but tour operators say they've seen heavy cancellations as most air travel between China and Gulf countries screeches to a halt.
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Using the companion app, you can change frequency response, tune out things like baby screams and train screeches, or turn up the volume of the people in front of you.
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Globally, major airlines are slashing services as demand screeches to a halt while people are urged to stay at home and self-isolate to slow the spread of the virus.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NORWICH, England — Ravens at night, a vacant city center, and silence broken only by ruffling feathers, talons scratching the pavement and those bone-chilling screeches.
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No one really knew what to expect out of Prince in 22011, but he pulled out a stellar performance, complete with rock-and-roll screeches and a custom made purple guitar.
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At the time of the attacks, patients reported hearing metallic screeches and low humming sounds, as well as vibrations like the bursts of air that come through an open car window.
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Their releases jump from creeping noise rock to warped synth-pop to other abstract beat-making—one of their most recent cassettes roped in a few black metal screeches for good measure.
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For best effect, we suggest viewing the stream along with these recent audio recordings from the Mariana Trench, which are best described as a cacophonous blend of frenzied screeches and otherworldly moaning.
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Jazz streaming from the Amazon Echo in my apartment sounded like the screeches of a mythological harpy in the throes of ecstasy when I listened in on my phone at the office.
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InsideJapanese artist, Ryoichi Kurokawa's Node 5:5 audiovisual installation, a hair-raisingly sharp sound screeches into the space, and seconds later, a bright red laser beam sparks its way through the room.
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Over the years, he and his colleagues discovered that adult male Campbell's monkeys change the meaning of their screeches by combining distinct calls in specific sequences, adding or omitting an "oo" suffix.
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Well, obviously we don't know yet, but here's another thought to keep you awake at night: Aside from those horrible dry ice screeches, White Walkers don't talk (as far as we know).
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Lynch brings the viewer deep into the blast, into the very heart of the evil that permeates the universe of Twin Peaks while Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" screeches ominously.
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At one point during the mixtape, I hear screeches that recall rusted train parts mingling with the real-life beeps of games played by my neighbors; at another, the shrill cries of birds.
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Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Dan Peters, and Guy Maddison sound like they're working independently of each other—laying down improvisations on a theme in separate rooms—until the chorus coalesces and everything screeches together.
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Occasionally, songs like "Brave New World" will border on well-realized emotion, but then Kiazka screeches, "Kill fear, the power of lies," and we remember that the band doesn't know what they're talking about.
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Announcements, train screeches, footsteps, and the music of platform performers such as a didgeridoo player become minimal electronic compositions, heavy techno tracks, and other unexpected soundscapes, many of which completely transform the original recordings.
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This much is clear as 2018 screeches toward a close: President Trump's foreign policy has shredded the status quo on a range of issues, from global trade and transatlantic relations to Iran and North Korea.
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The cop flips the cruiser's sirens on, screeches a U-turn through an intersection, and races up the block after him, but his car is immediately thwarted by a parked moving truck blocking the street.
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And I learned that even the toy's most hilarious gimmick—holding Furby over a toilet in the app and squeezing it as it screeches "THE STRUGGLE IS REAL" and takes a shit—gets old eventually.
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The name, the pizza (from a coal oven) and much of the menu is the same, but the resemblance of the new Lombardi's in Chelsea to the one in NoLIta screeches to a halt there.
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And the driver screeches to a halt at the corner because he sees a sign for a bar called Open at 9 A.M. and he and the daddy get off the bus and go into the bar.
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Instead of cleavage and abs, Charlie flaunts her biceps and quads in punk rock T-shirts and ripped jeans, a symbol of strength, independence and self-reliance as she screeches along highways and puts up a fight.
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Put it all together and compress the ever-loving shit out of it—this basically makes louder sounds quieter and brings smaller sounds up in the overall mix, key for the music's swelling screeches—and you've got Doom, baby.
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Noisli, available for iOS and AndroidMaybe it's because I'm a New Yorker and used to hearing sirens and the piercing screeches of subway trains coming to a halt, but my mind needs background noise to fully relax at night.
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Spectral Acceleration is a way of thinking of the forces on a building itself, which will naturally sway back and forth as the ground shakes below it, like a car's radio antenna rebounding after the vehicle screeches to a halt.
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The GT 63 S is a stupendously prodigious example of German high-performance engineering and design applied to the challenging of compelling 4,600 pounds of automobile to gobble up pavement and frighten the uninitiated with with growls, barks, screeches, and whelps.
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Since Kilauea began erupting on May 24, nearly 2028,210 people have been ordered to evacuate as 2430 giant fissures ripped through the area, including two new ones that opened on Sunday with ear-piercing screeches that sent lava and rocks flying.
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The travel industry has been at the epicenter of the economic turmoil arising from the coronavirus as leisure passengers cancel trips, employers curtail business travel, the conference circuit screeches to a halt and the State Department urges travelers to stay off cruise ships.
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At one point, a dancer reveals she's pregnant only to find herself kicked in the belly; a mother screeches in horror when she realizes her toddler son has been sampling the contaminated booze, but is unable to protect him from her own, unraveling brain.
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With a heady blend of marimba tones, bongo flourishes, bird calls, and even monkey screeches, the album felt like the furthest thing from the American living room, far beyond the craftsman homes, General Motors, and middlebrow taste native to most of the record-buying public.
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CALAIS/GRANDE-SYNTHE, France (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every morning before the sun rises, when the frosty air is still and quiet, Afghan migrant Nabi waits for the screeches of trucks bound for Britain in the northern French town of Calais, hoping to jump onboard undetected.
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Prince's version here doesn't search for shortcuts: he hammers staccato notes where the snare might've held the beat; he thuds the bass keys where the choir might've swelled; he flies into soulful screeches at some crescendos and withers down to a whisper at others.
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Suzisuzi's self-titled debut careens wildly through crossover thrash, punk, rock'n'roll, and good old fashioned chaos, held down by Okumura's big, dirty basslines and the three vocalists' chorus of rough'n'ready English-language yelps, screeches, and gang shouts about monsters, shopping, love, and fucking shit up.
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As a producer, he assembles choked sonic landscapes, hard to listen to not just because they're packed with scratchy electronic textures and abrasive screeches, but because they never stay in one place; he's always jumping around, smashing one beat and building another from the pieces.
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But the true innovation here is how this one trades more standard song structures to center instead on the malleability of the voice at the center of the Eartheater project—which floats handily from seraphic chorales to whispered raps, piercing squeals, and power-tool screeches.
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Within that framework, it seems to intentionally mix up positive and negative feelings through its instrumentation: familiar synth pulls and screeches characteristic of unbridled delight on the dancefloor are coated in a certain kind of messy rumble evocative of the feeling of wanting to throw up.
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But it's really when these elements are combined, the mesmerizing art and sheer speed of the experience with the senses-rattling audio—all of its do something cues appropriate thumps and clangs, screeches and drones—that what looks like a cool little game becomes a crucial addition to anyone's catalogue.
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While he is less concerned about ear protection during the relatively brief time someone uses a hair dryer or stands on a New York City platform as a train screeches into the station, people who work all day in the subway or listen to loud music for hours need to protect their hearing.
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On most of his upbeat rockers the melodies were simple enough that it didn't matter, but even so his voice was pinched, its exaggerated Britishisms ugly rather than refined; when he thought it amusing to sing lounged-up torch songs, when he decided to croon like a French chanteur, when he slowed down the beat for any reason at all, the resulting gasps and screeches turned genuinely painful.
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The world is a cacophony of screeches and honks and hums and stinks and sweetness and reds and grays and blues and yellows and rectangles and polyhedrons and weird irregular shapes of all sorts and cold surfaces and slippery, oily ones and soft, squishy ones and sharp points and edges; but somehow all of this resolves crisply into an orderly landscape of three-dimensional objects whose qualities we remember and whose uses we understand.
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It's getting to the point where there's so much to say about each episode that moments as striking as Price asking a former colleague to pave the way for China's takeover of Congo and saying he'd like to be the most powerful person on Earth since God, or Joanna Wellick dressing for her confrontation with Elliot while the Japanese hard-core band Bleach screeches in the background during the opening credits, can be comfortably reduced to mere asides.
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First they drive the broad, sunny streets of Phoenix; then highways; then in more complex situations, such as airports and downtowns; then in heavy rain; then amid detours and road closures; then in rough, winding country roads prone to landslides and flooding; then (some considerable time from now, says your Canadian correspondent) in snow and ice… And even then, how can a truly self-driving car handle anomalous situations, when the car doesn't know what to do and screeches to a halt?
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