Word: scream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each weekend in August, the Italians in the North End of Boston have a festival for a patron saint or protector. Though the inspiration is religious, in practice they show some qualities that redeem them to the masses. Ice cream vendors tinkle along behind the procession, and children scream and cry just like at any other parade. The largest and most exciting is the last, the festival for Saint Antonio de Padova, but the other three are just as important...
...member of the Texas state legislature: "it sounds like a frantic statement from a man who has lost and knows it." Growled a Denver Republican leader, E. D. Nicholson: "Rockefeller is dead." To Mississippi's Wirt A. Yerger Jr., G.O.P. state chairman, the statement appeared to be "the scream of a drowning man going down for the third time...
When mating, the males make a special sound, "ö-ö-ö-ö," and the females sometimes scream. But gorillas are not like monkeys, baboons or humans; sex is a minor matter in their lives. During all his study Schaller saw only two sexual episodes. Both were performed in full view of the band, which showed hardly any interest...
...central to her-and central to her songs. She finds Weill and Brecht cultural soul mates, but last summer when she tried out some Weill on a Jewish audience, Brecht's German lyrics caused a near riot. Many in the audience stormed out, and one man began to scream at her, "Stop singing German!" Schlamme left the stage, soothed herself with a deep breath, then returned to the spotlight to freeze her remaining listeners with one final line. "I haven't been so frightened," she said, "since the Hitler Youth chased me down the street in Vienna...
...more picture of Richard Burton or Elizabeth Taylor or Joseph Mankiewicz on the cover of a national magazine, I'll scream...