Word: screamings
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...Corp. and British South American Airways Corp but it does not expect to see any of them in actual passenger service for two or three years. Like all new aircraft, the plane must undergo elaborate flight tests. But De Havilland claims to have licked one great problem: noise. The scream of the jet engines is for innocent bystanders only; it is hardly heard on board...
...other hand, Pierre Schneider's sensitive piece of criticism, "Celine, A Lasting Scream," shows what can be done in a critical vein. Schneider, in his analysis of this novelist's technique, does an excellent job of evaluating the contemporary novel in general, the novel whose author "plucks only the lowest and smoothest cord." He catches and understands the power that Celine's works carry, and acutely dissects the reason's effect of that power on the reader...
...touched the possessed garment. Such a treasure was almost too good to be true. She dragged it over her plump arms and promptly went into hysterics. Then the stage manageress, an old trouper herself, had a go at it, and tore the garment off. "I'm choking!" she screamed, and a very convincing scream...
...allergic children, more forthright than the allergic, work off their hostility by temper tantrums and calling their parents names. As five-year-old Andy explained: "I like to scare my mother and hit her. I call her names, too, and I make a whole bunch of noise. I scream so loud she thinks I die and that scares her good...
...without red tape and interoffice memos. "I love business," Tudie declares with a flutter of gestures and eyelids. "It's like a crossword puzzle. It's wonderful. And it pays so many rents." If tensions build up, she has a simple solution: "My throat swells. And I scream...