Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suicide plan includes killing Janet. This provides Burgess with the opportunity to show a bit of his genius for drollery. Janet does in Howard first and with the aid of her poet-lover gets clean away. Howard, after spending weeks tucked in a trunk, literally ends up as a scare crow. As the title suggests, though, Burgess is not satisfied to play at being Hitchcock. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the shape of a mind without soul? ∙R.Z.S...
Radford, Va. (pop. 11,596), might have qualified as the noisiest place in America last week. Blank-loaded shotguns roared, a carbide cannon thundered, and a mobile loudspeaker shrilled the panicky distress cry of the starling. The point was to scare a flock of some 150,000 stubborn starlings out of town. It was a measure born of desperation-a sort of real-life reply to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...
...threat marked the third bomb scare at Lamont Library this semester...
...Cambridge School Committee held a bizarre five-hour meeting last night that was attended by about 2000 people and periodically interupted by two brief fistfights, a bomb scare and almost continual chanting and clapping...
...audience participation segment of the meeting was interupted at 8:35 p.m. by a bomb scare...