Word: growls
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...most menacing part of the S.L.A.'s latest message was an ugly racist diatribe by Cinque. His voice hardening into a growl, the kidnaper noted that the Hearsts "have seemingly said by their actions that they know me" -evidently a reference to the speaker's own description of himself as black...
Trudeau is beset by serious political and economic woes. Despite all his efforts, Canada is reeling from growing inflation and rising unemployment. Quebec separatists regard the Official Languages Act-which makes French along with English the official language of government-as tokenism. The western provinces growl that the government is ignoring their problems...
...didn't swagger when he walked like the others, or hang about in packs looking for Action. At tournament dances he would stand quietly with his hands in his pockets and watch the band. He'd answer congratulations with gruff monosyllabics and then avert his eyes. But his growl wasn't hostile, neither was it shy. His slowness to make friends came out of something deeper. He acted like someone angry inside, all the time. You respected Stockton, you laughed with Connors...
...student actors all give serviceable portrayals and even better they seem to understand what Brecht has them saying. Mace Rosenstein turns out a suitably naive and accepting Galy but has no chance to show his evolution. As Bloody Five, Tim Manna struts and bellows, though in his efforts to growl, his lines occasionally garble. Marty Shofner, Richard Bertelson, and Steve Craddock make a good Three Stooges team, and their casual violence fits their uniforms. By avoiding Widow Begbick's slattern stereotype, Claudia Carter does Brecht's characterization one better. Parkman Howe, as a monk cum con artist, skitters away with...
...powerful message that Beck chose for his opening number: "I'm Going Down", an old Freddie King song done in a way that would shake the whole Mississippi delta. Beck made his guitar growl and groan, stomp and shake. Flailing his guitar more than Pete Townsend, and moving about almost as much as Mick Jagger, Beck mesmerized the audience...