Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounds from appearing random, gimmicky or incomprehensible. Continuity of tone color was particularly prominent in Night Music, where long whines, wheezes and whistles soared up one after another among balloons of deep sound burgeoning from beneath. The extra-musical connotations enhanced the experience: staccato bursts that began like machine-gun rounds softened into bird-like chirps...
Thursday at Rutgers, the varsity ran into its first real competition, but finally won, 14 to 11, in overtime. Playing before an enthusiastic crowd, the varsity was behind only once in a game that was dead-locked at 11-11 at the final gun...
...worked with gun and grin and lariat...
...Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...
...pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred, but what it really needs is a garlic gun...