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...CHICAGO. "Highball, Gerty, all aboard," comes the word over the cab loudspeaker. Engineer eases the throttle open, and his huge diesel units, totaling more 10,000 h.p., growl into action. They are pulling nine cars, mostly mail loaded in truck trailers carried on 85-ft. flatcars. From the cab track seems too frail and narrow to support 1,500 tons of locomotive and load. After the train leaves the Corwith yards, the speedometer needle creeps up slowly through the flat, industrial along the Des Plaines River. Finally are thundering along at 79 m.p.h., the top speed allowed this train. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Freight: Across the U.S. on Super C | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...honestly predict a victory for Harvard. Granted, we usually do better in Palmer Stadium than we do here, but that's academic. Princeton, of course, is no pussy emotionally. The team's feelings can probably best be summed up by Fabian's immortal words in "Tiger"-"I want to growl Wow!" What more can we say? Princeton...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/7/1970 | See Source »

Slap slap puff puff growl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...actually being said. While this can and does happen in a conventional Chek-hov production, the difference is that in this production the explosions are never suppressed. We not only feel them but see them. Characters (actors) almost violently grab for each other when they feel love. They growl at each other when they feel hate. They dance and spin when they are happy. The power of the production, ideally, operates on a conscious rather than a sub-conscious level...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer The Three Sisters at the Loeb through Dec. 13 | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

Heckart can growl and purr like a baritone sax, and she delivers her lines as if the playwright had delivered the goods. He has not. Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself, but simply a one-man situation and gag file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play: Blind Love | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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