Word: moans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought as she opened her mouth and stretched out her arms that she would call out a name, perhaps to question the ragged rain falling all around her. Instead she moaned, a primitive sound she had never made before, and fell to her knees on the mud dusty porch floor, her hands straining towards the rain. She felt caught on the moan, trapped. It sailed from her throat into the wailing wind...
...only the longest-running show in Broadway's history, Fiddler on the Roof, but also two of the most innovative ones, Company and Follies. To hear him complain about possible failure-never a very distant possibility on Broadway -is a little like listening to Jean Paul Getty moan about rising meat prices...
...game, or about the score after it is over. "If I come in and save or win a game," he says, "I just did my job. Why celebrate? That victory is in. The game is over. I might have to do it again tomorrow. If I lose, why moan? I hate to let runs score, but I can't get uptight. If I worry about ruining a game today, then I might wreck one tomorrow. When a game is over, forget it." Forget it he does. Win or lose, Lyle is always the life of the Yankee locker room...
...Sometimes he dreams of assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried to become a featherweight boxer, and spent many an afternoon fleeing the truant officer. Out of experience came a typical self-deprecatory gag. "I wanted to be an FBI man," Woody will moan. "But you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision. Then I toyed with becoming a master criminal-but you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision...
...movie is all jiveass and jungle bunnies. The men (Thalmus Rasulala, Raymond St. Jacques, Jim Watkins) chortle and slap one another's palms. The women (Judy Pace, Margaret Avery) mostly moan and gyrate in transports of synthetic sexual passion. Director Pollack is singularly catholic in his taste for stereotypes...