Considering that his Asian roots were showing right from the start, though, and that snails with sausage had been on the opening menu at Má Pêche, the shift in emphasis sounded fairly incremental.
This curious aesthetic emphasis sounds laughable today, but Belasco's appreciation of the emotional effects of lighting in his productions lives on in the attention he brought to the lighting of the theater.
While this emphasis sounds conservative, Fogel insists that the next generation of reform needn't be either/or -- that Great Society liberals and tough-love conservatives should find common ground promoting education, pensions and health care, as well as curbing drugs and media violence.
I agree with Peter Steinfels (Beliefs, April 29) that the American culture needs a better forum for public discussion than television, with its emphasis on sound bites.
During the performance a variety of tastings will be served to the audience, with an emphasis on sound, smell and memory.
Even if music companies and retailers like the iTunes Store, which opened in April 2003, wanted to put an emphasis on sound quality, they faced technical limitations at the start, not to mention economic ones.
I can still hear her voice with its italicized inflections and underlined emphases, which sounded just like the letters she dashed off daily on Cosmopolitan International letterhead in place of the ephemeral e-mails she never sent.
In Feldman, he found the emphasis on sound rather than on more abstract musical development: Feldman's dictum that the composer should above all "let sounds take their time" was taken particularly to heart.
David Lynch put a great emphasis on sound in his work, and Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom took his brief from Steven Spielberg, to create the authenticity of a battle arena for the war movie Saving Private Ryan, so seriously that he not only sourced all the original weapons but even recorded the sound of their bullets penetrating animal flesh.
One thing that was weird about Apple's WWDC HomePod pitch was it's emphasis on sound quality.
