Word: groaning
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...channels, and they're available in many video stores. The movies are worth tracking down. Made on a frayed shoestring by Poverty Row grindmasters, these pictures can't compete in polish or, often, simple competence with Hollywood fare. Modern viewers are likely to giggle at the films' technical flaws, groan at outmoded racial attitudes on display. But their very na?vet? makes them more persuasive as reflections of the black-white zeitgeist of the 30s and 40s. Art did not intervene; intended or not, these are documents of a vanished...
...stars Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a teacher and former pitcher. Long sidelined by an injury, he promises the struggling high school team he coaches that if they win their championship, he will make a final bid at the pros. Why, when I read the synopsis, did I groan aloud...
...presence of competitive fellow writers. I’m stealing this metaphor merely to elaborate upon a culture that is all too familiar to me, to my fellow thesis-patients and to the underclassmen—quarantined first-years and anxious juniors alike—who watch us groan...
...most difficult of all. For millions in the cities of the developing world, even in places that have seen miraculous economic growth, the promise of plenty is an illusion. Like the children in a Victorian novel, they press their nose against the windows of a house within which tables groan under jellies and pies. Relative poverty did not create and does not excuse international terrorism. But it can build a network of sympathy for those who take up the bomb and gun. Somehow the West, with its commitment to rationalism, belief in the future, confidence in the soothing effects...
...more or less representative of their lyrical power. It might be improved a little if their guitar techs kept the guitars in tune. But you should definitely not miss the indescribable last half of (the 10-minute long) “Albatross”: Five minutes of muffled guitar groan, occasional slurps and some guy who’s auditioning for a bit part in a Monty Python movie will leave you either in stitches or trying to remember why you threw your speakers out the window...