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Tsongas' story is at its most feverish as it describes his reactions to a reasonable Boston Herald story revealing his cancer, but headed by the screamer; "CANCER FORCES TSONGAS OUT." He writes: "The headline was crushing. The cancer story was out, and even though the story was proper, the headline would make the lasting impression. Forced out . . . How stupid. If cancer had forced me out, I would have retired three months...
...Angeles, the Bonaventure Hotel's Fantasia nightclub will award prizes for the ugliest face and scariest screamer. At Myron's Ballroom, where old folks go to dance to Big Band music on Sundays, as many as 800 are expected to attend in costume...
...started abusing my boy because he was an accident and a screamer. When he was four months old, I hit him so hard my engagement ring carved a deep bloody furrow across his soft face. His screams shattered my heart. I sank to the floor with self-loathing. Then I held him tightly in my arms, so tight he turned blue. I told him he had to do his share. Why didn't he help out? Why didn't he stop screaming? Deep down, I knew he couldn't understand. But I also thought he was doing...
Eddie Murphy is the first of skitcom's major mimics to span the gap. On SNL he presents a roster of hilariously varied characters. One minute he is Little Richard Simmons, finding just the right comic fusion-effeminate yet macho-of the rock-'n'-roll screamer and the Liberace of aerobics ("Good golly, Miss Molly, you look like a hog!"). The next he is Velvet Jones, a pomaded pimp, with teeth like sheathed knives, huckstering his how-to books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green...
...impressed his teammates and coaches. "We're extremely pleased with everything Mike's done," said Larry Gleuck, who as offensive backs coach has watched Granger's development. "Mike's a quiet person but he's certainly one of the team leaders. He's not a hollered or a screamer, he just goes out and performs, and leads the team by his example...