Word: soundproof
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Onstage stood a mighty fortress of loudspeakers, looking like one of the barricades in Trovatore. As the thundering music began to jar the building, Met Assistant Manager Francis Robinson cowered inside a soundproof booth at the rear of the hall, touching his fingertips incredulously to the trembling walls. "Feel it," he said. At the end, when the group was booed for refusing to play an encore, Tommy's Composer Peter Townshend put the audience down emphatically by filling the historic hall with a distinctly nonoperatic four-letter word. Bing was more restrained. "I didn't understand a thing...
...leaped up from the defense table shouting insults at the judges and witnesses. Such disruptions can make it virtually impossible to conduct a fair trial -thus, of course, fulfilling the defendants' angry prophecy. Members of the American Institute of Architects and the American Bar Association are discussing a soundproof plastic booth to be rigged with a telephone to the defense lawyer and a sound system enabling the defendant to hear the proceedings-but not be heard. The defendant would thus be reduced to pantomime protest. It sounds practical, but the larger question is what damage the judicial system will...