Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President also called attention to a just released antiabortion film, The Silent Scream, a startling 28-minute documentary that shows ultrasound images of a twelve-week-old fetus being aborted. Activists predict the film will become a high-technology Uncle Tom's Cabin, arousing the public just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement. Declared Reagan: "It's been said that if every member of Congress could see that film, they would move quickly to end the tragedy of abortion." The producer, American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., plans to mail the movie...
...confessors and prisoners. To some degree these are arbitrary distinctions; the 19th century British painter Benjamin Haydon recorded his financial and artistic woes in 26 confidential volumes. As one of his last exhibitions fails, he laments, "They rush by thousands to see (Tom) Thumb. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint . . . They see my bills, my boards & don't read them." Months later he quotes King Lear, "Stretch me no longer on this tough World," and commits suicide. Is he a creator, a prisoner or merely, as Mallon has it, an apologist...
...team that has just three seniors and plays six freshmen, and Saturday's trip to Cornell's wild and crazy Lynah Rink should pose an interesting test. Last year's Crimson squad grabbed a 4-0 lead in the first seven minutes, then watched the Big Red scream, yell, fish and tennis-ball its way back for a 6-5 decision...
...number of students performed radio dramas, and the station carried interviews, poetry readings, and political debates. "We would have two people debating debates. "We would have two people debating in one studio with a studio audience," says Lader. "We literally almost had fights on the radio--people would scream and yell...
...Shakespearean actress, which makes her the wrong person for his role. Her mugging, posting and self-consciously exaggerated delivery make no sense; her gestures and poses look like they have been forced on her against her will. Too often Giroux's voice lapses into sincerity while her slapstick gestures scream of parody. Her transformation from ferocious to frail falls flat...