Word: moans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...
Minutes later, Bunker encourages the class to make other kinds of sounds. The students readily moan and groan, seeming to release a plethora of pent-up tension...
Every week, opposing coaches moan and groan about the momentous challenge of designing a defense to neutralize Restic's complicated Multiflex...
...When I moan about my boyfriend shortage, they are the only ones who sympathize with me. "Buck up, Betty. At least you're not a Heinous Bush Pig, and you're okay to talk...
...television," adds Cronyn. "You'll see it in scripts. Audiences now have far less tolerance for long passages of dialogue than they used to. And you can't talk to me or to anybody my age in which you don't hear a sort of old fart's moan about the fact that it's much more difficult now for kids to learn the craft of acting. They don't have the opportunity. They don't get it in TV or films. I think it's important that actors do films, but I think they're way ahead...