Word: growling
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...across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward in disbelief at the thought that the next Governor of their state might be THIS GREAT BIG HONKING BULLET-HEADED SHOVEL-FACED MUTHA WHO TALKS IN A STEROID GROWL AND DOESN'T STOP. And then...
...penchant for the laundry man, although she does have a rather entertaining drunken twitch, which starts as merely an annoyance but escalates into a full-body contortion of sorts by the final scene. Her singing is at times a high-pitched and quite realistic whine, and at others a growl worthy of the most horrible of lonely spinsters. According to the playbill, Struthers is the first to admit that she's a "belter from the Ethel Merman school"; as Miss Hannigan, this is a very effective combination. (Although at times it may have been a bit too effective...
Throughout the show, Mathus often altered his singing, souping up the band's current hit "The Suits Are Picking Up the Bill" and simply messing around on the hopping "Bad Businessman." Maxwell, the primary vocalist on several of the songs, preferred to growl or even scream lyrics as often and loud as he could, culminating in an almost violent (and thoroughly entertaining) rendition of "Hell," the band's calypso-styled mega-hit from...
...Spice Girls are history. Well, alas, they are. The bustier-busting sloganeering they purveyed is the touchstone for much of what passes for commercial feminism nowadays, especially the kind marketed to the demographic group the Spices are proudly empowering: preteen and teenage girls. Or "grrrls," as that tiresome battle growl goes. Is this the future of feminism...
Noir! The very word sounds like a French lion's growl. In its undiluted form, film noir (named after Serie Noir, a French publisher's line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These dank moral tales are about the evil that taints everyone--especially the hero, who must end up dead or disgraced. This disqualifies Hollywood neo-noir like L.A. Confidential, where at the fade-out two guys and a gal grin as if they'd just seen Singin' in the Rain...