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...fans and sportswriters alike there's a rub. The Tigers of Princeton roar, but do the Purdue Boilermakers boil? Or make? Bulldogs or Bears can fight, claw of maul but what do the Ephmen do? Something obscene, no doubt...
...Buffalo Offensive Tackle Bonnie Green tells it, "Blocking for the Juice-hey man, there's no telling where he'll be. He moves so catty, moving to the left and then back to the right. I never know where the Juice is, but when I hear the roar of the crowd, I know he's gone...
Anyone who has seen The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of The Crowd--the "other" Anthony Newley musical--will quickly recognize Newley's rather facile method of symbolism, and the familiar, characteristic nature of his melodies. Like Cocky, the central character of Greasepaint, Littlechap represents the little-guy/clown figure, valiantly struggling against innumerable forces and the temptations of the world. Because this world is often overpowering, he is occasionally forced to stop it, in order to escape temporarily any nightmare or turmoil he brings down on himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined...
...paper sailing up into the sky and down, glamourous blond cheerleaders leaping high into the air, and inebriated fans everywhere. A full minute before each of Saturday night's kickoffs, the Alabama rooters began a deafening ROLLLLLLLL TIDE, equalled only by the Auburn fans' competing WAAAAAAAR EAGLE. The thunderous roar of that cheer didn't reproduce well over CBS, but I remembered it well...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...