Word: howling
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...seems to be inconsistent and hypocritical to imprison persons for the avowed purpose of changing their behavior, and yet when someone seriously attempts to use scientific knowledge to change the inmate, we hear a howl of protest [March 11]. Maybe we aren't' as serious about rehabilitating prisoners as we claim...
...bubbles and blond-wigged blacks and silver-sprayed Afros, tranvestites and Amazons. The action is not in getting into the movie as much as it is in getting off on the movie together, in concert. And the getting off means a wisecracky hysteria, a grab your neighbor and howl with a mad mock raspy relief, as if coming down off some wild nightmare ride of your midnight hour. There isn't a quiet minute of the movie. You hear waves of "Jeesus, man, I can't believe that action. I mean can you dig that dis-gusting motherfucker...
...Nasal Howl. From the moment they shamble onstage to begin their low-key performance, Dylan and the Band are in complete control of the audience. Dylan's early folk-rock numbers, punctuated by Band standards like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek, are knocked out with an almost blase professionalism. But if Dylan is short on emotion, he makes up for it in energy. Shouting into the microphone in his haunting nasal howl, he spits out his message like a cobra. Since neither the performers nor the songs need introduction, there...
...Heah comes da Wolfman!" the voice rasps in rural black accents. "Don't touch dat dial!" High-pitched giggles lacerate the air, quickly followed by a rough approximation of a wolf howl. "We gotta whole lotta soul comin' atcha," the voice promises. "Rock V roll wid da Wolfman. Lay yo' hand on da radio right now 'n' feeel...
...Pictures. The question is not quite as disingenuous as it sounds. Wolfman has had a number of guises in his 17-year career, and now, at 35, he is a far howl from his earlier images. Many listeners once believed that he was black or Mexican. "Nobody knew if I was white or black or whatever, and I kept the mystique up," he has said. "No pictures, no interviews. I turned down some heavy cats." When he did make public appearances, he painted his face assorted colors and wore a huge wig and sunglasses. "And these crazy long fingernails...