I always feel a sense of relief when I get a phone call from my husband; the call during which he always sounds exhausted; the call whose timing I am rarely able to predict; the call which is automatically cut off after the time limit has been reached.
After a four-minute plunge during which he broke the speed of sound, Baumgartner successfully landed safely, thereby completing humanity's highest skydive.
Hendrix's performance featured a rendition of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", during which he used copious amounts of amplifier feedback, distortion, and sustain to replicate the sounds made by rockets and bombs.
Black Dylan sound nothing like a black Dylan, but they are rooted in the pop era during which he emerged.
Over the 20 years during which he studied abstraction, he steadily moved toward simplicity and purity.
Despite some initial cautiousness in the first act, in which he sometimes sounded underpowered, he sang with confidence and poise during "Kuda, Kuda," his big aria in the duel scene.
Much of the platform on which he ran sounds familiar.
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
