Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through the decades. The 1930s' Scottsboro Boys (race, sex, the myth of endangered white female virtue, which was always the Southern white man's reverse rape projection). The 1940s' Alger Hiss case (emergent cold war and its anxieties of communist infiltration). In the 1960s, the Chicago Seven trial (Vietnam, the crisis of American authority); in the 1970s, Watergate. In the 1980s, insider trading...
...trailer was lying on its roof; Malcolm started crawling along the ceiling, trying to reach Sarah. He looked up at the lab equipment locked down on the lab benches, above his head. Liquid dripped onto him from a dozen sources. Something stung his shoulder. He heard a hiss, and realized it must be acid...
Newt Gingrich was taking questions at a town meeting in his suburban-Atlanta district last January, when a fortyish woman rose and identified herself as a tax lawyer. Before anyone could hiss, she allowed, "I'll go out and learn how to make cabinets for a living if you will eliminate the current tax law. It's disgraceful the way my clients use it to avoid taxation, and I hate it. And I hate the irs. The whole system is corrupt." The crowd of more than 600 erupted in applause and shouts of approval. So Gingrich asked some questions...
...Catholic Church, and Sean Walsh (Alan Cumming), the creepy suitor who is weaselling his way into her parents' affections. Sean is a lovable stereotype, whose lascivious lipsmacking and overall villainy are genuinely funny (at the film's advance screening, his every entrance was greeted by a good-natured hiss from the audience...
JOHANNESBURG: Insect Invasion They hiss, bare their teeth and squirt a noxious black goop. The South African rainy season has brought an influx of so-called Parktown Prawns. Not really crustaceans, the brawny, pink, 10-cm- long king crickets are infesting the gardens of affluent suburbs in ever increasing numbers. Some residents insist they are pollution-induced mutants; others tell of ferocious guard dogs driven off by the bugs. One woman claimed her children were traumatized after encountering an insect in their bedroom, and demanded to sleep in the car. Experts say the insects are harmless--good news, since there...