Some of it still is — but many of the restaurants we used to go to have now gone in for loud music, ceilings that bounce conversations back into the mix, etc.; all of it seemingly, and apparently actually, calculated to send boring middle-aged people like me running.
Inside, it's loud, with sounds bouncing way up to the old tin ceiling, past the pair of 1904 Coast Guard oars and back down, blending conversations with the clatter of clearing dishes and clinking glasses and making a chat with the host an intimate affair.
On the prop-strewn stage, eight musicians whistled, read newspapers out loud, bounced a ball, made animal sounds and uttered dramatic statements like "I'm melting".
Working with my ex-husband, I had trained myself to talk out loud and bounce things off him.
"I explain my own personal style, think through things out loud and bounce ideas around.
The scientists, who report their findings online today in Biology Letters, think the bumps grasp the ends of the special resonating feathers, which poke through the skin, for better sound control, and that the dense bone may make the sound louder by bouncing it out through the feather.
"When the ball landed, it made a loud tonk! and bounced as if striking macadam," he says about one of many encounters with golf-course fauna.
Studiomultitracks.com Several years ago there appeared a Web site — saladrecords.com — that streamed recordings of John Bonham, tracking his drum parts to Led Zeppelin's "In Through the Out Door": just that loud, magnificent groove, bouncing off the studio walls.
Police used water cannons and pepper spray on the crowd – I heard loud bangs, something bounced against my head, people ran by bleeding.
Otherwise, why did the laughter ring out again, louder than the music, and bounce, like a dozen hard rubber balls, around the room after 2 a.m., when usually his guests knew better than to be that noisy?
