Word: chirp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Myrberg, "I was sitting there hitting the 'chirp' button, but visibility was so bad that I couldn't follow the little damselfish." Frustrated, he told his sound man to try a different set of signals. No sooner did the sound projector begin broadcasting a low-frequency tone than "bang, the whole area was filled with sharks." A chance turn of the dials had paid off with completely unexpected information...
...Though no shot is fired, Play It Again, Sam is riddled with laughs. Apart from being a hemophiliac, Allen's latest hero, Allan Felix, is an exposed ganglion of neuroses, guilts and self-recriminations. He looks like a wilted scarecrow that would cringe at a sparrow's chirp. He has so many psychological hang-ups that he makes playgoers feel positively healthy, which may be why they tend to love...
...interpreters of Bob Dylan and on their fourth album soar highest with one of Dylan's old songs, My Back Pages. Where Dylan himself sang the disillusioned sermon like a harsh and nasal backwoods evangelist, the Byrds weave it into a more mellifluous and harmonic song. They also chirp sweetly about what seem to be LSDelightful reveries (Mind Gardens, Renaissance Fair...
...cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?") I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...