Word: foghorn
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...Journey into Night-not only O'Neill's best play but the best play in the history of the American theater-the world is reduced to the nuclear family: loving each other, torturing each other in one room with the dark night and a foghorn outside. Everything O'Neill knew and felt circled back at last to this family of his childhood, as original and terrible a myth to him as the Garden of Eden...
...other items, the ITT affair and the Watergate bugging. Nothing here but us chickens, the White House insists, all locked up behind the high fences of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, running from case to case with explanations of coincidence and business as usual. Sarah McClendon, the redoubtable journalist with the foghorn voice, lobbed one into Nixon's cool and respectable press conference last week, and for a moment the President seemed to have been hit with a brick. Why didn't he "make a clean breast" and explain the Watergate case? she bellowed. Nixon, taking a few seconds...
...when that foghorn blows I will be coming home
When that foghorn blows I want to hear...
Many laugh without realizing that the exchange makes no sense. You can hear the teeth grinding. the television cameras are still. A sound man in a turtleneck opens a window, the klieg lights are tested again while a foghorn from the lake sounds over the growing murmur...