Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that I will not be dovoured if I show proper respect. There are dogs on top of me, dogs below me, dogs in front of and behind me, dogs between met dogs, dogs on both my wrists. All are barking, licking and jumping happily about, very friendly incredibly raucous. The watchman slinks off to leave me to my friends. Mirrors and glass on either side of the hall multiply us infinitely. Even though the room itself is rather dark, I can see in front of me a large spiral staircase lit by the ethereal glow of some unseen fixture...
...save for a greeting on the final page. But within its elemental comic-strip layout a series of hilarious sight gags are set up and sent home. Author-Illustrator Ed Emberley has never been a man to pull his punch lines, and his jokes are often a bit too raucous; but then so is the laughter that ensues from their close inspection...
DIED. Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, raucous rock group that called its music "Southern raunchy roll"; when their chartered airplane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Miss. Among the six people killed were Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, a vocalist with the group. All three were 28. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released...
...Center. A cheerful cherub of a man walked swiftly to the podium and smiled at the audience. His face was a pale Russian winter's landscape, his blue eyes shone mischievously. He turned toward his colleagues and, with a sturdy slash of his baton, launched into a high-speed, raucous overture that seemed to roil the Potomac. It was strictly show-biz razzmatazz, a pastiche stitched together by Leonard Bernstein from his 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The show had not fared well on Broadway, and the music culled from it might have passed unremarked?except that the enraptured...
...Raucous vaudeville is Chicago's prime mover. The musical score by Fred Ebb and John Kander so dominates the show that even the musicians tend to dominate the actors, performing on top of a platform which towers over the stage. From there the musicians almost become part of the plot. The bandleader and an MC even stop the proceedings at times to announce a song or plug a performer...