Word: scream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...25th book will probably follow the same course. Here Bradbury resurrects the place he knew as an entry-level scenarist. He calls it A Graveyard for Lunatics; the more familiar name is Hollywood. The narrator is hired to write a wide-scream horror movie. To his delight, he learns that a boyhood friend has been signed to create the most dreadful monster in film history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that...
...from one-third of 1% of the value of each stock trade to 5% of a transaction's value, which would raise an estimated $60 billion over five years. "It's an easy grab," admitted a securities lobbyist fighting the plan. "It raises billions from people who don't scream and may not even feel...
Even on relatively slow news days, the front-page headlines of Manila's 23 daily newspapers scream of worsening terrorism, new coup threats, prolonged power brownouts, mounting protests against U.S. military bases. Last week they were shrieking at a fever pitch. The U.S. Government had discovered that a Peace Corps volunteer working on the island of Negros had been kidnaped in June by communist insurgents; just days earlier, officials in Manila had denied that such Americans were at risk and had lambasted Washington for suspending the Philippines' Peace Corps program. Then came the even more riveting news that...
...simply demand more time. When a patient cannot be saved, Dr. Bourland says, "you have to go tell the family that their loved one died, and you know that you only have about 120 seconds to do it -- to get them to cry, to get them to yell and scream, to get them calm enough to give them all the facts so they won't wonder later what we did to try to save him. But I've only 120 seconds to do all that, because if I don't get out of there, then three other people are going...
They can continue to scream into the deep, dark hole that is their "moral malaise" and gain few, if any, converts. They will fail because they have essentially cut off constructive moral and political discourse...