Word: air-raid
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...alone (solos) or in marauding groups (roverpaks), eke out a savage existence on the crater-ridden surface, foraging for canned food and gang-raping the remaining females. Aiding them in their search for food and sex are telepathic dogs, equal in intelligence to humans. Below the surface, in cavernous air-raid shelters, are the remains of Middle America, existing in ante-bellum middle class splendor. Ellison's novella, and the film, focus on the adventures of a young solo named Vic and his telepathic dog in this topsy-turvy world...
...lover in the last fifty pages. For Boil, there is nothing so honest as sensuality: Leni's sensuality, even when she does not know Nazis kill Jews; the sensuality of anonymous lovers who in churches, cemeteries, or bomb-shelters embrace each other amid the desolation of an air-raid; and the sensuality of an Au. who has conceded from page 1 that he has too much concern to be detached...
...been particularly cruel irony, since Shostakovich had been a rallying point and something of a hero for Russians in World War II. In 1942 his Seventh Symphony was played at a concert in Moscow. Through the thunder of kettledrums in the symphony's last movement, the wail of air-raid sirens was heard, but no one left the hall. With the final burst of dazzling sound the audience sprang to its feet and gave a long ovation to the pale, gaunt composer...
...chilling wail of sirens sounded over Hanoi last week, a radio announcer quickly reassured his listeners that U.S. bombers were not on their way. "Don't run for the air-raid shelters," he said. "Let us celebrate the great victory." The citizens of Hanoi needed no encouragement. Normally the most staid and restrained of people, they exploded in an all-day celebration that rivaled Rio's carnival in exuberance...
...Formula One's start to practice. Running through their gears, these cars wail like air-raid sirens going at full blast. They will average over 120 mph on this course with its 11 curves and two long straights. Watching these cars run their laps is like seeing five out of every 100 frames of a motion picture; a series of loud flashes with little continuity and a great deal of suspense between glimpses. I won't know the overall story of the race until I read it in the next day's paper...