Word: scream
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...opens with Ratatat’s “Wildcat," a sleek and sexy track whose almost predatory feel is only reinforced by the recurring cougar-scream that haunts the piece. Following this prelude is “Seventeen Years,” a sort of Ratatat anthem if you will: with its rhythmic march and searing synth overlay, it conjures images of an army’s worth of cigarette-jean clad hipsters readying for battle...
...magnitude quake shook the central Abruzzo region early Monday morning, leaving 287 dead and some 20,000 homeless. Volunteers and donations have flooded in; so too have prayers from the Pope and countless local priests. Partisan bickering back in Rome has all but ceased. Even the newspapers that scream their Page One headlines with every Silvio Berlusconi faux pas chose to ignore a gaffe the Prime Minister made in the midst of the tragedy, when he told German TV that those forced from their homes should treat the experience like a "camping weekend." (See pictures of Italy after the deadly...
...dances, my favorite piece is 'Bees,' because you go through a dramatic arc that involves a dance and a tragic death scene. How do you bring your dramatic flair to these? Because I write them, I already have a tone in my head. I occasionally make the males scream and suffer about their deaths, because I assume that nobody wants to die. Even in mating...
...Comedy Be Cutting-Edge? Aspiring filmmakers used to cut their teeth on R-rated horror movies; it was a genre that allowed them to show their skills of cinematic technique and audience manipulation (get 'em to scream). But with Apatovian buddy farce currently triumphant, more tyros are turning to R-rated comedy (get 'em to laugh). Here timing, not technique, is required: creating a vibe, working with actors, building a scene, knowing the audience. It's less like movie auteuring than like staging a play, but that's all right. Every film comedy needs a director, and these days there...
...protection" of those damaged by imports. If you listen to many politicians, especially American ones, you would think that imports are bad, a signifier of economic failure. Trade only "works" if a country runs a surplus. (A logical impossibility when extended to all countries, but never mind.) Free-traders scream: No! It is imports, not exports, that are the whole point of trade; we trade precisely so we can enjoy those goods in whose production others have a comparative advantage. But that message is not easy to get across in hard times...