Later that night the match between Uruguay and Nigeria was played against a backdrop of the crackle of rubber bullets and the deep rumbling thud of sound bombs.
The first that comes to mind is the album cover of DJ Qbert's Extraterrestria LP, which Thud Rumble converted into a little DJ controller.
Nowhere is there evidence of that catastrophe, and everything on the sleepy street seems serene now -- except for the slamming, thudding, rumbling, thwacking sounds made by company members as they rehearse "Tete en l'Air," the centerpiece of Diavolo's New York debut on Wednesday at the Joyce Theater.
Then came the throaty rumble of a backhoe and the thud of wet earth dropping on bodies.
Warhorse still reverberates with the rumble of armored convoys and the thud of helicopters ferrying troops and, at times, the wounded.
Next, the low thrum of a distant double bass, a rumble of timpany, a bass drum thud, then a snare, repeating and rising like the approach of a far-off army.
The ship rumbles up to the ice floe with a thud and shudder, and then comes the scraping and scratching of the ice on the steel hull as we make inroads into our frozen barrier.
Armored troop carriers rumbled throughout Cairo's downtown on Wednesday to the thud of tear-gas guns.
In the distance, Iraqi mortar fire thuds like car doors slamming, answered by the rumble of British artillery.
The sound begins with dull thuds, activating the drum, but builds to a low, resonant rumble as much felt as heard.
