Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wartime First Secretary in Britain's Washington embassy, later headed the American desk in the Foreign Office. To one casual acquaintance, Maclean's allegiance to Communism "stuck out a mile." Yet, though they might be "eccentric," both were "gentlemen." Today, there are still many in Britain who scream "McCarthyism" at the suggestion that scientists or civil servants should be more closely screened. This month, in the wake of two other flagrant espionage cases, a government committee investigating security procedures recommended drastic reforms. Its findings stirred angry protests against what the Laborite Daily Herald called "spy mania." If Maclean...
Matched mano a mano against the gypsy genius Joselito for the seven greatest years of Spanish bullfighting (1914-20), Belmonte was gored time and again, Joselito hardly ever. Belmonte was always the torero of "four olés and an ay!"-the scream coming whenever he was gored or pitched into the air on the horns of a bull. Then, in 1920, Joselito was killed in the arena, leaving Belmonte the unchallenged maestro. When he retired at last, he had killed 1,650 bulls and been gored scores of times. "How many?" stammering Belmonte once said...
...Happy Thieves (United Artists). Some movies, as they say in the trade, are released; others escape. This one, completed last April, seemed of such dubious character that it was promptly confined in the company's vaults. Now at large, it will probably make moviegoers scream-occasionally with amusement, mostly for the dogcatcher...
...Trovatore, had not a single high C in it, but Tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) started inserting one in the middle and one at the end-and they have been there ever since. The 40 tenors sing in six languages, and generally bleat, screech, bawl and scream in a manner calculated to make any listener sympathize with Rossini's request that a visiting tenor "check his high C with his overcoat...
...Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished study; charged with protest against war and against Franco, Gonzalez shows the Montserrat broken, reduced to her knees, her mouth twisted in an agonized scream...