Word: scream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also "Africanizing" the liturgy in ways marked by high church attendance and great zeal. At a typical Mass the young priest dons a zebra's mane headdress while assistants, men and women alike, clap and shuffle around the altar to the throbbing of drums and an occasional shrill scream of religious ecstasy. The congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted on a Latin rite for this week...
...apples he's painting?whether they're sweet or sour. Who cares? It's his style, his manner of painting them?that's where the emotion comes from." Acting, he declaimed, did not really count in movies: it was photography, editing, "all the technical ingredients that [make] the audience scream...
...hands know what is going to happen now around Washington. Some will counsel the President in the virtues of doing nothing. Some will condemn the military minds that planned the strike. The allies will scream even louder than they have. The President will be alone with his obligation, his conscience and his will more now than ever before. How he puts this all together will decide if he survives as President, if the U.S. marches ahead or cringes...
...together the works of that little known period. From his desk in the Fogg, Welch composed a letter to the director of the British Library reference division, the caretaker of one of the two great works of the early Safavid period, asking for his cooperation. "I thought they would scream with pain and say 'What do you mean?' " Welch says...
...part of the ensemble that some shoe manufacturers are three months behind in filling their orders. Says a saleswoman at Pella, a high-fashion shoe store in Atlanta's Lenox Square: "If one more person comes in here and asks for Bass Weejuns, I think I'll scream." Stores that have always catered to the Preppie trade-notably, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and, naturally, Brooks Brothers-report heavy sales of the basics, as well as such accessories as narrow neckties, webbed watch bands, ribbon belts, circle pins, single strands of pearls, bangle bracelets and brightly embroidered corduroys...