Word: scream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN JANIS JOPLIN SANG, you could hear the years of whiskey and smoke she'd seen. And while Bruce Springsteen is usually as full-voiced as a coonhound hot on the trail, he has that same degenerate raspiness, hoarsely trailing off at the end of a line, or scream-whispering into a mike. In Springsteen's first two albums. Greetings From Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle, his voice jibed perfectly with his driving music and his lyric description of growing up in New Jersey. But his new album, Born To Run, is inconsistent...
...fear is understandable. Nearly two years ago, his wife Sue returned from a noontime shopping trip to find an intruder in their Northwest Washington apartment. The man warned her not to scream or run; she did both. He tackled her in the hallway and, as Ray says, "just beat the hell out of her," breaking her nose, jaw and several ribs. She was in the hospital for eleven days and required plastic surgery. Her attacker was never found. Last May Mrs. Ray died of a heart disorder that was unrelated to the attack...
...relaxation following a thorough purge. Sort of like an easy feeling of release you'd get if you told off the bastard who just fired you. Earthquake had a similiar man-on-the street life gamble element to it but it played on violence without aggression. People could scream with the victims but they couldn't wreak disaster with a conscious, directed attacker...
Officer John Stanton of the University Police, on duty in the Yard, was alerted by a scream and saw a man running towards the square...
Elton's concerts are fun. People augh as much as they shriek. ("If they scream," he says in his self-mocking way, "it is probably in horror.") Fans eagerly await his first appearance onstage to see what outrageous variations he will work on his image that night. No one can predict which of his 200 pairs of glasses (total value: $40,000) he may wear. He has three pairs that are mink-lined, another with 57 tiny light bulbs that spell out ELTON, yet another shaped like musical notes linked by a jeweled bridge bar. Most gorgeous...