Word: skulling
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...Some orchestral players claim they cannot hear one another adequately in performance, that the communication among them no longer has an intimate, chambermusic quality. Some listeners miss the old soul-rattling vibrations. Says Acoustician Larry King, who was not involved in the project: "Carnegie Hall doesn't shake the skull as it did before." Summing up the negative reaction, Music Critic Leighton Kerner of the Village Voice declared, "New York City now has another Avery Fisher Hall," referring to the acoustically troubled home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center...
...must stop The Joke now before it's too late. I can't stand it much longer--already when the hisses are let loose I get that bad feeling that happens when you cringe your face so tightly that your skull no longer has room to house your eyes...
...summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting debut in Betty Blue, a steamy art flick by Diva Director JeanJacques Beineix, caused a sensation in France. Dalle is not overly impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked her to play Betty Blue, sees something else. "Like Brigitte Bardot, her physical anomalies are more important...
Oddly enough, King's unsettling plots rarely work on film, perhaps because occult scenarios are best played in the Skull Cinema. On a real screen his lethally gifted children often turn out to be amateurish performers; the floodlighted hotel is about as frightening as the set of a Fred Astaire musical; and the rabid Saint Bernard seems only a benign cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood...
...they enter the medieval abbey, William and Adso are first approached by an aged, Peter Lorre-type monk (William Hickey), who looks at Adso with his half-blind, lustful eyes and tells him that there is something "diabolical, even feminine" about the monastery. Even the gargoyles are creepy, with skull images where stalagmites once were...