Word: growl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...didn't get it. He thought Romanek meant this would be the final shot in the ailing star's life, so he had better make it good. Cash wouldn't, couldn't surrender to such defeatism. "I hope it's not the last take," he said in that baritone growl, which for nearly a half-century brought matters of death to musical life...
Before computers and pop-culture fetishizing, there was a different breed of geek. Even more loathed and degraded than his modern ancestor, this geek was a literal freak - a sideshow act - a man willing to growl like an animal and bite the heads off chickens for his daily fifth of cheap booze. Along with confidence men, carnies and cops, the geek is just one of the grimy characters of William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1946 novel "Nightmare Alley," now turned into a gripping graphic novel by the veteran comix artist known as Spain...
...turns The KKK Took My Baby Away into a bland bit of Goth melodrama. The Ramones' songbook demands energy and wit. Rancid gets the energy prize, flying through Sheena Is a Punk Rocker an inconceivable 58 seconds faster than the Ramones did, while Bono drops into a drolly perfect growl on U2's Beat on the Brat. But it's Kiss, the least credible contributing act (and the act that cares the least about credibility), that delivers the only great cover, imbuing Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio with an over-the-top nostalgic wackiness that Joey, who grew...
This war has two faces, one a promise, one a growl. One says we will defend liberty wherever it lives, plant our values where they have never grown. The other says if you challenge us or threaten us or even just invade our sense of security, you will have started a fight that you will certainly lose. Wartime leadership requires a dual message. It has been President Bush's role from the earliest days to handle our hopes, reacquaint us with our resilience and remind our allies of our resolve. It has fallen to Vice President Cheney, a nighthawk with...
...headquarters while J. Edgar Hoover was director. It read, in part: "If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him; speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember--an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness ... If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault, why--resign your position and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content." The copies she received had "resign your position" heavily underlined. "It wasn't even anonymous!" she says. "They signed their names! Even though that...