Word: screech
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...last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...
...Governor's new mouth spent much of his time making sure reporters got Carter's record straight. His ear tuned to a car radio, Powell would screech into the nearest gas station whenever Carter was maligned on some talk show and phone in an instant rebuttal. He could go too far. To a critic of Carter's stand on school busing, Powell wrote: "I respectfully suggest you take two running jumps and go straight to hell...
Driving easily through a moderate sea, the vast U.S.S. John F. Kennedy catapulted jet aircraft into the night about 70 miles east of Sicily. One after another, the F-14 fighters braced on the catapults, revved their engines to a screech, then were flung off the bow of the 87,000-ton carrier. The red glow of their afterburners traced their progress as they climbed into the blackness...
...sexual needs that all human beings share." In Gay Spirit (Grove Press; $6.95), a sex manual for homosexuals, David Loomis reminds his readers that they do not have to contend with "pregnancy, diaphragms, daily hat compliments, paying for every damn thing, marriage contracts and divorce settlements, alimony, babies that screech in the night and adultery...
...French Connection. And speaking of Americans, who do we have on the big screen this week but good old Popeye Doyle? Shit fuck shit fuck, screech go the car wheels, bangity-bang go the guns, yessir that lonesome American cowboy Popeye is some fella. William Friedkin is not an untalented director by any means, nor is this really a bad movie, but it opened the door to so many repulsive ones that their grimy taste seems to merge with this in the memory. Gene Hackman's work here, like so much of the rest of it, is very good acting...