Word: groaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sexual onstage style. That includes not only his lyrics but also the tight, satiny gear. "I'm thinking of being carried onstage by Nubian slaves and being fanned by them," Mercury tells interviewers. "In fact, I'm holding auditions now-but where to find a slave?" Parents groan, kids applaud, a new rock superact is born...
...that prospect brings a groan from voters who are tired of windy old Hubert, it's surely understandable. Even by 1968, Humphrey seemed an exhausted, overexposed candidate, a veritable Swiss cheese of political wounds. John Kennedy had riddled him through and through in the 1960 Democratic primaries, and Lyndon Johnson had mauled him for four years as Vice President. He had become an outcast to youth and liberals, two of his natural constituencies. He remembers people spitting on him and his wife during the 1968 campaign...
Holmes: "I don't mind knocking somebody out. If I hear a moan and a groan coming from a player I've hit, the adrenaline flows within me. I get more energy and play harder...
What does the smile of the native optimist have to do with the groan from the cross? What cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...
...other muffs that caused the crowd to groan in embarrassment were not Lynch's fault. There is more to the kicking game than meets...