Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always had smartass answers to the teacher's questions and who gave the teacher the finger as soon as she turned her back. He was always doing something clever like carving pornographic couplets into his desk or trying to sneak into the girls washroom just so they would scream and all the boys would giggle. Woody Allen has carried this comic style into adult movies with his film Everything You Always Wanted to Know etc. In response to the serious queries of Dr. David Reuben, our wealthiest sexologist. Allen offers witty poems, hyperbolic parodies, and clever asides that are irreverent...
...whose imaginations have been fired by the battle of the giants, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. They gather in chess clubs, if they are seasoned aficionados, or in front of the TV in the corner bar, or around a transistor radio if they are out in the boondocks. They scream instructions, encouragement or abuse at the contestants with all the futile energy of spectators at the World Series. The psychology of the Johnny-come-lately fans is much like that of the masses of men and women who take up any craze, and much of their enthusiasm will be evanescent...
Dick Miller, perched in the balcony, is going out of his mind, playing an imaginary guitar and dancing at the same time, emitting a more or less constant scream. He is not standing on his seat like everybody else, including the girl dancing naked to the waist on our right; he is standing up on the arms of his seat, doing a boogie and moaning, on the verge of falling. When they come to Jumpin' Jack Flash, it is too much for Miller; he is down off his perch, dancing in the aisle...
Businessmen then would likely scream for relief, and Nixon and his advisers would face an awkward dilemma. If they ordered the Price Commission to relent, they would risk angering consumers, but if they let the commission go ahead, businessmen might cut back on expansion plans for fear of being caught in a profit squeeze, thus chilling the economy's recovery...
...felt one brother jump on top of him, then another, then it all just became a blur and then sudden pain. He didn't scream but he did kick. When he was unfurled, he lay in pain, his shoulder torn apart. The brothers thought it was just a bruise and hoisted him up. He asked to have his blindfold removed and for a postponement of his initiation. He left the house quickly, pushing aside brothers as he went. It was a quick sprint to University Hospital...