Word: screech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Stock Exchange. No listing. Nope. Or call Dallas--Irving, to be precise, home of the Dallas Cowboys--and ask for the number of Da'Boys. No listing. You provide the address--1 Cowboys Parkway--and are finally given a number, which produces only the screech of the no-such-number signal. The list goes on: no number for state representatives' offices in New England, or for the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D.C. One operator, when asked for a number in Des Moines, informed the caller that there was no such place...
...flesh and even more penis talk than on some 8 o'clock sitcoms. For all that, Crash doesn't work. Sexual without being sexy, the film moves smoothly but slowly, like a Caddy on a revolving showroom platform. Dialogue scenes are conducted in a reverent whisper; only the brakes screech, just after a climax or before a death. Even the carnographic love play--in which each character has predictably weird sex with most of the others--is too studied. The fine actors disport themselves solemnly, like giant hood ornaments of lust...
Academic categories include "Dead White Europeans" and "Conjunction Junction," while pop culture sections range from "Bands that Rhyme with Zmead" to the more obtuse "According to Screech...
...have to dedicate your life to Demon to get published," pointed out the magazine's vice-president Jeremy "Screech" Friedman...
...alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers and the horror of others, Engler took them up on it, promising to find some way to make up the money. Until the vote last week affirmed his method, the possibility loomed that public education in Michigan, penniless, might screech to a halt -- along with Engler's political career...