Word: bullhorns
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...sigh and shake my head. It can be a drag to work with the administration instead of against it. Meetings, e-mails, closed doors, red tape—it’s never as sexy as spray painting your chest and hooting call-and-response chants through a bullhorn at University Hall. In many ways, I regret not doing more of that. Still, I tell myself, I’m not a complete suit. I’ve realized over the last two years that what’s best for the environment isn’t just...
...making noise and hopefully making our distaste of General Abizaid and the Iraq war in general known,” Joshua Kortiz, a member of Socialist Alternative and a Harvard library employee, wrote in an e-mail. “There will probably be signs and maybe even a bullhorn.” Friday’s protests will be followed by city-wide protests at the Boston Common Bandstand at noon Saturday. An IOP spokesperson could not be reached for comment about the speech yesterday...
...need to see theblood!" shouts Mel Gibson. "Your character is goingto die soon!" He picks up a bullhorn: "Attention! We are all dying here! We are all dying!" The Oscar-winning director is standing in a rock quarry near Veracruz, Mexico, shooting a hellish scene for Apocalypto, his action epic about the ancient Maya. Hundreds of local extras--many of whom have never seen a movie, let alone acted in one--are pounding fake limestone to build a temple used for human sacrifices. Gibson wants one of the extras, covered in white lime dust, to visibly cough...
...never seen a movie, let alone acted in one-- in a fiery scene depicting a Maya city?s obsession with the kilned limestone used for the temples in which some of the crowd may soon be sacrificed to the gods. Holding a Camel cigarette in one hand and a bullhorn in the other, Gibson put on his best bug-eyed Lethal Weapon face and pleaded with them to "show more fear, more trepidation! It?s like Mars! It?s hell on Earth!" When most of them gave him blank stares, Gibson sheepishly turned to the crew. "Traduccion, por favor" ? translation...
...Maya, the subtitles, it won?t even matter in this film," because of its fast-paced action, said Gibson, as thick black kiln smoke wafted across the set. Then he picked up the bullhorn again and approached another crowd of extras covered like ghosts in thick white limestone powder. "Try to think of what makes you most afraid!" he shouted.? "My mother!" an extra shouted back. Gibson smiled and nodded at the crew: "I told you this film was going to be very, very different...