Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party at the Heaven's Gate Skating Arena in Wyoming--Cimino's camera moves with a lovely, fluid grace, catching you up in the excitement of the event. Cimino captures well the spirit of social gatherings, contrasting the stodgy coldness of an infamous Stock Growers Association meeting with the raucous and ugly cheer of a cockfight tournament...
...roof. "I know," she says, somewhat abashed when it is mentioned to her. "Noël Coward told me once that my laugh is like a drunken sailor's on leave. But when I get to know somebody and can let my hair down, I am a boisterous, raucous, down-to-earth, no-nonsense lady. I live life with a zest. It has never been dull for me, and I don't anticipate that it ever will be." -By Gerald Clarke/Fort Lauderdale
When the women hoopsters took on their Ivy weak sister Brown last night, the raucous, die-hard crowd on hand for their last home game of the season saw as exciting a game as they'd witnessed all year. Unfortunately, the team that wins is not necessarily the most exciting team, and this time the bad guys...
...Raucous Raiders upset earnest Eagles on Super Sunday...
...terrible racket and ruined the roof of our cottage." Unable to silence the pest, Lantz made him immortal-by introducing the creature into one of his Andy Panda cartoons. "Universal Studios told me I ought to have my head examined," he recalls. "They said he's noisy, raucous, obnoxious; he'll never go." They were right, except on that last point. Now in his 40th year, Woody Woodpecker remains a star of screen and television. Children in more than 60 countries recognize his taunting five-note laugh-done for three decades by Gracie Lantz, now 77. "People like...