Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girls. The actors seem to be relying on the black cloaks which partially cover their usual white robes to convey the transformation of their characters. They certainly don't act any differently, or smile any less. They do, however, make lots of silly ghost sounds and giggly cackles. They hiss a great deal, as well, as they bound about the stage, apparently carrying out very complex, though incomprehensible, choreography. Unfortunately their bumping and stomping is very loud on the hollow wood stage, and distracts from the sorcerer and main witches. One can only wonder at the lack of discernment which...
...Foale remained behind in the transfer node to make sure the bolts holding the sphere together hadn't been damaged by the collision, Lazutkin unstowed a large tank of pure oxygen, wrestled it into the main module and, with Tsibliyev's help, opened its nozzle. Instantly, a loud, sibilant hiss echoed through the ship. Off in the node, Foale heard the noise and, knowing the difference between the sound of air entering a spacecraft and the sound of air leaving it, heaved a relieved sigh...
...hiss, a strategic alliance indeed. Is Jobs crazy? "Madman at the wheel, eh?" he said, laughing, as he walked off the stage in Boston...
...recounts that Republican Representative Jim Saxton yells, "'Where did you learn economics, Mr. Secretary?'" and, jumping up and down, "'Evidence! Evidence!'" Reich says he was attacked by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch speech: "There isn't a lady in the room. All men...ready for the kill." They hiss and shout, "'Wrong!' 'Bull____!' 'Go back to Harvard."' Great stuff, but it never happened, according to tapes and transcripts dug up by Rauch. Saxton was less Savonarola than Mister Rogers; the hearing was dull, even for C-SPAN. The lunch was breakfast, the room nonsmoking and nonhissing, and a third...
Capps, 41, was the kind of guy who, when pricked, bled in rainbow colors. His defection, when it came six months ago, was so startling that the New York Times reported it. Now when he walks the streets of Silicon Valley, people hiss...