Word: howling
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...drum bands that have been playing in these hills since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents. Luther, 27, his soft features framed by thick black curls, finger picks his Gibson hollow body and uses a bottleneck slide to make it skitter and howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments chase each other around the barn, hanging on a single chord and repeating...
Majoring in cybernetics--which merges his interests in biology, engineering and computer science--Parham studies hard. One time, after finishing a physics problem set, he let loose with a howl the whole library could hear. "But I've never done...
...quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama. It made Shakespeare's verse immediately comprehensible and ethereal: perfectly analyzed, beautifully felt. Declaiming the final scene from King Lear in his solo Shakespeare show The Ages of Man, Sir John sounded like a noble basset. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" The tone was mournful, then (an octave higher) deranged, then weirdly ecstatic and finally strangulated, stilled...
SECONDHAND SMOKE Big Tobacco may howl, but the government's verdict is in, and secondhand smoke is now considered a known human carcinogen, leading to lung cancer even in nonsmokers...
...tells More that he would cut down all the laws in England to get the devil. More replies that he would give the devil himself the benefit of law for his own safety's sake--for after the laws were felled, nothing could withstand the winds that would howl, there being no place left to hide. The greatest casualty in the war on drugs has been chipping away of the forest of laws that represent our civil liberties. And no liberty has been pinched tighter than that against unreasonable searches and seizures...