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Lean supports his matchstick characters with the crudest possible symbolism. Rosy breathes and heaves beside a patch of openmouthed lilies as Doryan appears on the hill. Their couplings-and every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean...
Szaro walked off the field to a roar. His 31-yard field goal had beaten Cornell 27-24 with eight seconds left on the clock and ended a very exciting football game...
Grabbing Rats. "The strike," said Alan Fisher, general secretary of the National Union of Public Employees, "is to demonstrate the value of the workers and the services they provide." It did just that. Britons were suddenly aware of the man-made torrents that roar ceaselessly under city pavements. "If the pumps stop for only half an hour," warned a London official, "the sewage will start coming up. London could be swamped. People could be drowned." A sewage worker gave another perspective: "My job is to stand by a screen wearing gloves, picking off by hand anything that comes along...
...ground and stretching 40 feet in the air. At the crest above Greene's house it took on new oxygen from the valley's updraft. Truck Driver Andrew Board, whose house just down the road was almost miraculously spared, recalls: "It came with a great rumbling, deafening roar. I never knew they roared like that." Riding hot, dry winds of up to 70 m.p.h., the fire blasted down on Greene's $70,000 house, vaporized the commune. James Parnell, 82, one of the original settlers of the valley, lost his house and 27 of his 28 Maltese...
Some 2,000,000 Americans suffer from the same speech impediment that tripped the distinguished tongues of Demosthenes, Aesop, Aristotle, Virgil and Winston Churchill. Demosthenes, so the story goes, cured himself of stuttering by stuffing his mouth with pebbles and competing with the roar of the surf. He may have had something. A Detroit physician, Dr. Marvin E. Klein, 33, reports remarkable results with an instrument that fills the stutterer's ears with the sound of a waterfall whenever he opens his mouth...