Word: growls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Tilden. The products plugged into every kiddie angle: toys appeal to younger kids, who then move on to the cards and graduate to the various levels of video games. The TV show propagandizes each new creature with a tutorial called "Who's that Pokemon?" Most of the Pokemon growl their names repeatedly ("Squirtle, Squirtle, Squirtle"), so the children learn who's who quickly. The craze is also Gen Y Web-friendly: the most popular website for kids 12 years and younger is Pokemon.com It's all Pokemon, all the time. At least until the next craze...
When whistles began coming closer to our tent, as did the dull growl of angry people, we began to gather our few remaining personal belongings and waited by the door, foiling one man who attempted to relieve himself on our walls. It was two of our previous customers who encouraged us to leave...
...Tarzan is determined to "be the best ape ever." Frustrated that he can't growl exactly like his ape friends, he is advised by Kala to "just come up with your own sound." He does, and he likes it. The Tarzan yell is a shout of young maturity, of his interspecies uniqueness. But later, when he falls in love with Jane yet feels obliged to stay with his ape family to protect them, the yell carries a wrenching pathos. It is the primal scream of someone who doesn't know if he's man or monkey...
...band Godsmack, who received the Debut Album of the Year honor, blasted through synthetic fog with their relentlessly pounding single "Whatever." And rounding out the bill of stand out performers was Outstanding Female Vocalist on an Indie Label Susan Tedeschi, who brought down the stage with her guttural, bluesy growl and who also won Single and Album of the Year (Indie Label) and Outstanding Blues...
...holding what amounts to a months-long policy seminar and keeping his notes to himself. The result is a Washington guessing game: Whom is he talking to? Whom is he "listening to"? And whom for substance, whom for show? About those things, Bush is right to be discreet. Conservatives growl when they hear he's talking to anyone remotely moderate...