But while the tale she tells is entertaining, Cheever's entry suffers from the collection's one major malady: it's weighed down by the literary equivalent of voice-over narration.
And, in Henry IV, Eyre employs every trick of cinematic fluidity to match the quick flow of modern screen drama: cross-cutting and dissolving between the three main locations (the court, the rebels, Falstaff's dens) and turning soliloquies into their natural screen equivalent of voice-overs.
WHITE It was like meeting the female equivalent of my voice.
This involves a so-called word-for-word translation, and then an adaptation to respect and incorporate the linguistic tradition and rules of the second language, and finally another working-over to recreate the equivalent of the "voice" of the original text.
The portrait is the girls' final great work and the visual equivalent of the communal voice of the B-Mor workers, who before long are taking to the streets to demand a better life for their children.
Those first tracks sound gloriously unvarnished: Pied Piper's squelch-whip noises sound like desperate electronic yelps trying to escape from the machine – the instrumental equivalent of a teenage voice yet to break.
Chasing the Scream is a powerful contribution to an urgent debate, but this is its central problem: in contrast to the often brutal realities it describes, it uses the gauche journalistic equivalent of the narrative voice found in Mills & Boon novels.
Qwest is packing the equivalent of a million voice telephone calls on each fiber pair, and each fiber optic cable carries an average of 48 pairs of fibers.
It is the digital equivalent of the little voice that everyone has in the back of their mind when they write something.
It suited Welles; it was the visual equivalent of The Shadow's voice — a gigantic echo chamber.
