Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, pain and violence are anathema to the Intentional Community. Says Judith Malina: "We are a terrible lot of moralists. We are trying to live together in peace, not only saying that the U.S. should disarm, but that we should not scream at one another in rehearsals-or if we do it, to understand why." The collective ideal seems to fall between the Group Theater of the '30s and a 19th century Utopian experiment like Brook Farm. Actress Jenny Hecht, daughter of Ben Hecht, puts it this way: "I want to live with people close, in a state...
Olivier is malignantly and magnificently feral, dangerous precisely because he is a wounded animal clawing at the specter of death. One waits for the Olivier howl, and it comes-but not as the inhuman scream of the blinded Oedipus, or as his trumpet call to glory in Henry V: "God for Harry, England, and St. George!" In words charged with pain and hurtling toward frenzy, Olivier vengefully announces that he wants a divorce in order to "unite my destiny with that of a woman who together with devotion to her husband will also bring into this household youth...
...attempt to "kidnap L.B.J. while wrestling him to the ground and pulling his pants off. We will attack with noisemakers, water pistols, marbles, bubble-gum wrappers and bazookas. Sorcerers, swamis, priests, warlocks, rabbis, gurus, witches, alchemists, speed freaks and other holy men will join hands and everyone will scream 'Vote for me!' " Alas, L.B.J. rarely visits the Pentagon...
...from the fact that "total shout" radio sells so well these days that the decibelters have to talk faster to squeeze in all the commercials. Sponsors know that, as the jocks put it, to get the green from the teens' jeans you have to be beamed to the scream. Since not even Madison Avenue can conjure up their sales pitch, many rock jockeys operate consulting firms for advertisers on the side. Recently, for instance, Boston's Juicy Brucey gave a classic lesson in the teen pitch over WBZ's "50,000 watts of flower power." "I want...
...Rolls-Royce with his bodyguard, tapes his show and sends it to Radio One from Paris, where, speaking passably good French, he is also the country's No. 1 disk jockey. The Emperor, who likes to strip to the waist before he assaults the microphone, is teaching the scream scene to other disk jockeys in France. As for the rest of Europe, well, all the Emperor says is that he isn't mastering Spanish, Italian, German and Russian for nothing...