Word: clamored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stockroom employees, glad that the clamor for books has calmed down, offered his solution to the problem...
Somewhere along the course of this narrative, as Claude's triumphs on the concert tour follow one after another, as the music world's most eminent performers clamor for his accompaniment, a reader may become jaded with unalloyed success. What is the point of going on? Aren't there any problems in this book? Unfortunately, the only serious trouble to visit Conroy's story occurs when Claude is at the keyboard. Here is what happens when he sits in on a jazz session: "G minor C seventh, A-flat minor D-flat seventh, A minor D seventh, B-flat minor...
...time of year to feel sorry for the TV networks. Each fall, the Big Three manufacture a fresh batch of shows and try to generate some new-season excitement, and each year the job gets tougher. The audience wants something different; critics clamor for "innovation." But how many new concepts are left in a cable-saturated world where viewers have seen everything -- and seen it all over again in reruns? Judging by a fall crop dominated by play-it-safe family sitcoms, not many...
...Kentucky Cycle won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in drama -- the first work ever to do so without being staged in New York City. Normally, the award brings box-office wealth and a clamor of producers seeking one's next work. But everything about this show is unusual: its length, its two-century sweep, its sprawling blend of domestic cruelty and historical revisionism. As a commercial venture, it is also daunting for its cast of 20 and the need to induce audiences to commit to two three-hour sessions. So it has taken nearly a year and a half to reach...
...cities are crumbling to dust." Feeding Frenzy uses sepulchral organ chords and a throbbing bass line to drive home its point that civilization has bloodied its own waters; Garrett sings, "Computers and shovels, churches and brothels/ Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dust bowls/ Here we go again/ Hear the clamor of the feeding pen." Garrett, who ran unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate in 1984, sings like a man on a mission, his voice stoked with righteous indignation as he lashes out at racial bigotry, mindless materialism and ecological irresponsibility...