Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third album--Matching Tie and Handkerchief--is a let-down, although the Oscar Wilde party and Cheese Shop routines are excellent the first two times around and the Australian University philosophy department drinking song is something which, if you can't exactly dance to it, you can hum...
...about two seconds after Horowitz started the engine, there was a high pitched hum, a noise that ordinarily warns of an open door or unused seat belt. But all the doors were shut, and the belts were snapped into place Horowitz glanced at the dash. The hum stopped, and he drove...
...among his bones will be one that resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...
...little children playing soldiers on them. In a building still blackened from being burned out, a baker pulls trays of flat bread out of the makeshift oven, while a shop opened beneath twisted iron shutters offers transistors and domestic appliances. Above the din of the crowd, there is the hum of bulldozers and the clatter of sledgehammers as workers battle to clear the debris of hopelessly damaged buildings...
...polished cast paced by the sensitive honesty of John McMartin's performance makes the evening hum with suspense. And Pirandello lends it the ironic graveyard mirth of a man who saw life as a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. ∎T.E.K...