Drivers are forced to grapple with frequent breakdowns caused by extreme heat, blowing sand that fouls engine parts and the incessant beating from bad roads.
There is no place like it, on these islands, for the mutual battery of multiple forces, for the thumping, pummelling and attrition of creation and destruction, the incessant beating of weather, vandals and arson against rocks of obstinate architecture.
They shunned a mostly black public school whose coach, apparently showing little interest in the diminutive point guard Little Dru, "valued size over the incessant beating of a hungry heart".
The influence of their swirling, transcendent rhythms and incessant beats can be heard most popularly in the music of the Rolling Stones: Charlie Watts is seen playing a Jajouka drum in the Jean-Luc Godard film "Sympathy for the Devil," and it was Brian Jones who helped popularize the music of Jajouka with an album he recorded there.
The tools that Charles brought to this, and the many other extraordinary performances he recorded in the 1950s and 60s, were a hugely expressive voice, and fingers that knotted the emotional ambiguities of the blues with the incessant beat of gospel music.
The cello and occasionally the viola kept an incessant beat with a macabre pedal tone as the two violins danced high above with shimmering but steely harmonics.
Critic Ted Panken observed in 2004 that Miller the pianist "finds ways to conjure beauty from pentatonics and odd intervals, infusing his lines with church and blues strains and propelling them with a joyous, incessant beat".
And while Whiplash doesn't feature a single show-tune, an incessant drum beat courses throughout the tale about a young drummer and his abusive coach.
If the bubbles are, at least, delicate, the screens to either side of the stage deliver a figuratively sharp elbow to the ribs of the audience with exhortations to clap to the incessant, pounding beat of the recorded musical accompaniment.
One year ago, they moved back, fixing up a brownstone on East 118th Street and finding that the streets retained much of the gritty, festive mix they cherished: gaudy murals, coconut-ice vendors, sidewalk domino players, hole-in-the-wall luncheonettes with incessant salsa beats, ragged tenements next to fussed-over gardens.
You see, the new Feldmansion is in a quiet residential part of Encino, one full of older, conservative people not used to fancy Hollywood shindigs, and they weren't about to have their night ruined by incessant techno beats.
