Word: screech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never Far Away. It is the kind of race that has an insidious fascination for the oldtimers-the veterans, nominally retired, who spend most of the year telling themselves that they are through with the hot smell of lubricating oil, the screech of skidding tires, the grab of brakes fighting for control. This year is no exception: among the entrants is René Dreyfus, 49, onetime champion of France, a driver who dropped out of regular competition 15 years ago and settled down to a more prosaic profession: running Le Chanteclair, a raidtown Manhattan restaurant...
...glance, then checking their estimate by careful count.) Artificial aids to attract birds and flush them from the underbrush are legitimate. Many birders make a succession of noises such as "Pshhh, pshhh, pshhh; psi, psi, psi; tsk, tsk, tsk." Birding virtuosos learn to give lifelike imitations of the screech owl's eerie, fluty tremolo. Others carry the Audubon Bird Call-a tiny birchwood tube in which they rotate a pewter plunger: it squeaks like crazy. Latest gadget is a 98? plastic "bird" with a trombone slide that can be made to chirp and whistle arpeggios like an amorous cardinal...
With rays of light through the murky night She makes the dark as noon, Oh! would I were a screech owl now, To woo the yellow moon...
Intermission, and he returned in a brocade smoking jacket for a little Boogie Woogie. "Let's have a little fun," he cried. "When I pause I want all the girls and women in the audience to yell 'hey!'" An aswering screech. "O.K. fellas, its your turn." A lower-pitched roar. "I told you so, George, I knew men came to my concerts...
...rest of the characters are normal, in a rather hideous way. There is solares, the Mexican whom Mrs. E-C marries, and his appalling family, which looks like something out of Margaret Mead. Although the Solares relatives sing, screech, and dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...