Word: scream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finger on the button, eye glued to the viewfinder, he crouches there, trying to imitate a fireplug's unobtrusiveness while putting a frame around inchoate reality. But much as one admires the discipline of the cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal...
Then the oracle is spoken. That god of all gods, accuweather meteorologist Rich Heller, describes the prevailing weather patterns. As he patiently explains the day in terms of barometric pressure, cool fronts and zonal flows. I feel my blood rising. Finally, I can stand it no longer. "Spring!" I scream as I throw the phone clear across the room in disgust. "Spring!" I scream as my roommate sleepily pokes her head from she bedroom. Still raving, I run from the room. In the distance a neutral voice repeats again and again: "Have a good day, and thank you for calling...
...appeal of drugs, beyond the immediate physical sensation, is that they give one a license to be irresponsible. One is part of a spectacle, and it is permitted to break things, to scream, and to say "I love you" without consequence. When we attend a spectacular divestment rally and applaud the speakers who bash Harvard and Derek Bok the hardest, we aren't being irresponsible, rather the reverse. It is only when we go home and turn to more pressing concerns that we become irresponsible, because we go back to being that very Harvard we were bashing a few hours...
...doubled its business to Asia and is now booking 1,500 customers a month. Says Co-Owner John Graeler: "People are banging down our doors for tours. My partner and I are forever running over to Hong Kong to look for more hotel space. First we beg, then we scream, then we rant and rave, and we still don't get as much as we'd like." A cruise to Brazil to observe the progress of Halley's comet is already sold out at prices of about $3,450, depending on accommodations, even though the cruise does not begin until...
...mauling Roddy Piper, "He certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month at the Garden, 20,000 souls who wouldn't be caught dead at a Jane Fonda Workout congregate to scream obscenities and pelt the wrestlers with hot dogs and ice cubes. For the few hours they spend together in a wrestling arena, the Perrier Set and the Boilermaker Brigade have something in common: synthetic blood lust...