Word: moans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice is cold. Thou sands of rats, he says, have come from the cellars and sewers to die in the city's streets. The plague has begun. The dead will be carried away in tramcars. There is a panicked whisper of running feet, a scream, a distant moan. The chorus is a clamor of wails-"the rats, the rats." Trombones trail down the declining moan of an air-raid siren, and the orchestra shrieks in echoed despair. In a long, fatal moment, the music dies on the slowly fading tremor of a gong. And in that long moment last...
...living, while British workers grumbled loudly about its damage to their pay packets. In Italy, where the government has launched an unpopular austerity drive to halt rising prices, the man in the street has found a new scapegoat in la cara vita. And the French, who love to complain, moan relentlessly about la vie chere. In any language, inflation is Europe's foremost economic preoccupation-and the problem that most threatens its extended boom...
...saying "Ask for T." ("And the T," says Thelonious, "is me.") The concert was the most successful jazz event of the season, and Monk greeted his triumph with grace and style. At the piano he turned to like a blacksmith at a cranky forge? foot flapping madly, a moan of exertion fleeing his lips. The music he made suggested that the better he is received by his audience the better he gets...
...Bullfights. Fados sound like torch songs sung from the top of a mosque: sobs, wails, cries from the soul. Even when performed by as dulcet a fadista as Amália, they are more forlorn than a foghorn, more despairing than a moan. Fado means destiny in Portuguese, and the Weltschmerz of a good fado gets a physical grip on its audience; like "ffillie Holiday's blues, fados encourage a state of mind well beyond the reach of popular music...
Coach John Yovicsin is not a man to moan loudly over his misfortunes, but he was frankly worried last week about disabilities plaguing four important men. With seven more days to recover from injuries, these players should be able to contribute their full talents to the effort against the Bulldog...