Word: primally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades ago, Harvard students didn't streak through the Yard in the midst of the Primal Scream in order to relieve exam stress...
...downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood in a forshadowing of Norman's own obsessive cleaning...
...game is derived from two basic, primal instincts of mankind: Monopoly and drinking Pepsi. We call it "Drinkopoly...
...really began when I heard the'primal scream' before exams," said Marc J.Kuchner '94, a coalition member. "I thought tomyself, here we are screaming like we're about tobe lowered into hell--and then I realized that inBosnia screams like this are real...
Besides such boneheaded lyricism, Keillor's men are capable only of the primal and sweaty masculine emotions: jealous violence and libidinous desire. This vision of New Age Man jars: a proudly belching bass fisherman, at peace with his clueless self...