Word: bray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indecision is that though many voters once thought of Shapp as the David-however well armed-who overturned the Democratic Goliath, they now question whether the open-handed electronics tycoon is qualified to take over the state government. Cleveland-born Shapp has not been helped by his bray that "I know more about Pennsylvania than any other one man in the state." Neither Governor Scranton, whose family has been prominent in the state for four generations, nor his Lieutenant Governor makes any such claim. Besides, Shafer stands to inherit much of the immense residual popularity of the Scranton administration...
...background is the barren landscape of Calabria in southern Italy, where flies buzz and donkeys bray through a stillness quite cordial to Biblical tradition. In desolate, crumbling villages, Pasolini chokes the narrow streets with children, animals and a startling collection of peasant faces. None are professional actors; the Apostle Judas is a Roman truck driver, the Virgin Mary in her later years is Pasolini's mother. Pasolini catches their simplicity and intensity with powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved...
Needs Understood. The noise begins at dawn with the loudspeaker chants of muezzins from minarets, followed by the clangor of bells from Christian churches. Auto horns, the plaintive cries of peddlers, and the bray of donkeys blend with the screech of jet planes. With evening comes the sound of 64 nightclubs, the throb of motorboats carrying gamblers up the coast to the Casino de Liban, and the shrill cries of prostitutes in the block-long Bourg Central Square in the heart of town...
True, a few families have had a minimum amount of power. Buster Bray has kept the Dirty Shame alight with electricity generated by a diesel Caterpillar in a shed behind the saloon. But "the Monster," as he calls it, has been running night and day for three years. It costs $26 a day, and, when it coughs at night, it wakes up folks for miles around. Bray is waiting impatiently for the rural cooperative to string its power-line to his part of the valley...
Slowly at first, and then more quickly, the drums began to throb and the horns to bray. Deep and profound through all of it rolled the resonant bass of the "tambari" (the Royal Drum) which was held by the tribe in an almost religious awe and took the whole skin of a full grown ox to dress each surface. The tambari is the repository of the basic tribal esprit de corps and is held in both reverence and affection...