Word: groaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same bed. The young couple make their exit in the lawyer's carriage, while he looks on and does nothing. The wife's virginal white veil flutters to the ground in the grey light of early dawn, and the lawyer lifts it to his brow with a groan as he falls against a courtyard wall. Even in lecture, the scene retained its resonances--a credit both to Bergman's imagination and Simon's prose...
Some people might groan at the suggestion of another march, but they are pitying themselves without reason. Two years ago Nixon backed down when faced with a domestic crisis, and there is every reason he will again. For many people sitting still while the United States annhilates the Vietnamese people is a simple impossibility. It would take nerve getting a suntan this weekend lieing on your back...
...brings forth a frozen-custard stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...
Present Past Past Present is the opposite of mirth. lonesco takes everything so seriously there is no room left for humor, and lonesco is so devastated by his existence all he can do is groan. Subtitled "A Personal Memoir", this book is the sequel to his autobiographical first volume Fragments of a Journal. It starts with flashes from lonesco's youth that run from a few lines to a few pages and then becomes a mix of his impressions at the beginning of World War Two, his thoughts about Israel and French intellectuals. lonesco not only sees what is hypocritical...
...powerful message that Beck chose for his opening number: "I'm Going Down", an old Freddie King song done in a way that would shake the whole Mississippi delta. Beck made his guitar growl and groan, stomp and shake. Flailing his guitar more than Pete Townsend, and moving about almost as much as Mick Jagger, Beck mesmerized the audience...