Word: groaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring these artistic highs and lows and the audience together, to make them real to each other if only for an evening. In order to survive, in order to continue to provide one hell of a night out, theater has to live and breathe, to laugh and groan and sweat right onto the people in the front row. At that range, the effect is unforgettable...
Ignoring such distractions, Medium William Monroe managed to groan, grimace and hiccup his way into a trance. In the process, he took on an uncanny resemblance to Rock Singer Elton John. In front of Monroe was a black- draped table laden with miscellaneous memorabilia: a manila envelope containing a letter from Arthur Conan Doyle, two pairs of handcuffs, a selection of lockpicks, a yellowed photograph. Monroe's task: to contact, on the 60th anniversary of his death, the ghost of Harry Houdini, master escapologist, prestidigitator and Appleton's most celebrated son. While Monroe writhed and jerked, it must be noted...
...RUMOR spread from one den of undergraduate iniquity to another, from the decadent pleasure parlors of Westmorely Court to the scruffy political cabals of Currier House. "A new discipline policy! A new discipline policy! There's going to be a new discipline policy!" An agonized groan erupted from the lips of the flouters of laws and the spurners of rules, for they sensed that the free and easy days of taping "Kick me!" signs to Derek Bok's behind were about to come...
According to Drew, "Grant would moan and groan about how much studying he had to do, but in the next breath talked about the Saturday night parties." Drew says that the fact that he had a brother here encouraged him to come to Harvard...
Adele is in the cramped kitchen, slicing leftover turkey to the beat of a Merle Haggard cassette. The sideboards groan with jars of jelly beans, Tootsie Rolls and beef jerky from the shop that her father Bob manages in a nearby office building. Molly's brother Kelly, 19, has cleared space on the kitchen table to do homework for his computer studies at the local community college. Beth, 21, is in the back of the house washing her blond hair. The whole place scans like Steven Spielberg's idea of suburban paradise...