Word: screaming
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...lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County, all the way to a farmhouse on the other end of town"). The legal principle that permits us to quote or closely imitate Waller's writing is "fair use," which carves out a small free-fire zone within which critics and parodists...
...credit that was coursing through the system and fueling inflation. In May he cut interbank lending and ordered the recall of $17.5 billion worth of short-term state-bank loans that were largely in speculative schemes. But Zhu's credit squeeze soon led state-owned companies like Shougang to scream...
...woman who has been raped." Lorena also claimed that John tore off her underpants; one expert said the 8-inch tear in the undergarment indicated the use of force, and another countered that the rip had been start ed with scissors. The jury noted that Lorena didn't scream during the alleged rape and that she showed no signs of forcible entry or sexual activity that...
...anyone scream out for moderation?" he asked rhetorically...
Kinison was not Lenny Bruce -- more studied, less sharp and attacking society from the redneck right instead of the hip-humanist left. But he was no lame-brain Andrew Dice Clay either. What's the difference? Well, stand back, because we have to scream this in a print approximation of the sonic blast that was Kinison's trademark. SOMETIMES HE'S FUNNY! We're not happy about this, but there it is. Alive or dead, in a comedy club or in hell (granted, a fine distinction), Kinison lived up to his self-appointed epithet, Leader of the Banned...