Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
Their green stems were waving, gently; and their cheerful bubbles of sweet bright colors danced around. Then suddenly they were all uprooted. She wanted to scream. They were uprooted, and sterilized, and embalmed in plastic. Hard in their loveliness; ruthless dancers swirling around...
...something. The audience and their energy are gone, but the actors and even the techies act as if it were opening night at the Bolshoi. One rushes in theatrically with a new costume, another stands deliberately at center-stage twisting and stretching in exercise, testing his voice at scream level, another bursts into song; even the stage hands on top of towering ladders are flamboyant and dramatic. Drums are pounding in the background...
There aren't any opportunities for major virtuoso showpieces, though each player shows what he can do during the short solos that are all part of the group effort. Billie Pierce and Frazier keep each song moving forward, whether in a fun piece like "Ice Cream, You Scream" or in gospel blues like "Closer Walk With Thee," and their ability comes off through their restraint and consistency...
...oarsman rows upon in practice and the act of rowing turns a flywheel. The problem is that an oarsman cannot ease his effort because that will slow the flywheel and in turn, make the next stroke all the more difficult. The exercise causes all kinds of muscles to scream out in pain. There were several times when I stopped in the middle of an ergometer workout, showered and left practice. Any doubts about the value of the enormous workload of crew were magnified while I was feeling the pain of rowing on the ergometer. It took a total mental committment...