Word: croaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment when the machine, for all its customary obedience, will disgorge, in a weird, surreal monologue, all the messages accumulated over months and months: disjointed voices, greetings and arguments and appointments long dead. And then one might hear a voice one does not recognize: a sort of gypsy croak, a voodoo voice, heavily accented and far away: "Please call. .. Eeet eees verrrry imporrrtant!" A cold gust goes through the room...
...proposed a clever small car that was never produced. In the Annan's Parking '30s Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors and flags; and Ghetto Blaster by Scott Prescott, an Impala converted into a menacing gray tank. French Sculptor Arman has a towering...
...which the real Mr. Thatcher might croak, "Hear, hear...
...compare to them." This is how Bryant talked, and prophetic lines muttered by him over the past year or two could be repeated last week without a chill. Coming from him they were not ghoulish: they were true. What would Bear do if he ever quit coaching football? "Probably croak in a week." Where would he go? "I imagine I'd go straight to the graveyard...
...higher, older pitch and the new low voice have an interesting effect in songs such as "Keep It Open," where she sounds like several different people. But the harshness becomes irritating in the beginning of "Night of the Swallow" and grating when she reduces her voice to a croak in certain parts of "Houdini...