Word: screecher
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...recalls. “It was at that time that I started looking back at happier times, especially my childhood.”Kimel now makes a living writing instructional material for Korean children, while seeking a publisher for his first story in English, “Max and Screecher, The Underbed Creature”—a twisted, witty poem about a boy who gets revenge on some bullies with the help of a fuzzy, hungry monster. The Israeli-born Kimel suspects that observers see a paradox in a Harvard-educated children’s author but waves...
...Johnny Rotten is alive and well. The aging lead screecher of U.K. punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, Lydon still uses his old stage name and hasn't lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format...
...several other young performers are adding a blue tint to their sound. Last month British-born art screecher PJ Harvey released a blues-shaded album, To Bring You My Love; Houston-born rocker Chris Whitley has just come out with the bluesy CD Din of Ecstasy; and this week Chris Thomas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, releases his blues-rap album, 21st Century Blues from da Hood...
Rock is good for rage, lust and protest. But for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. That's why many young musicians are adding a blue tint to new albums such as British-born screecher PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," Houston native Chris Whitley's "Din of Ecstasy" and Louisianan Chris Thomas' "21st Century Blues From Da Hood."TIME critic Christopher John Farleysays Harvey's music lacks "subtlety or grace," while Whitley's album is "painfully, almost uncomfortably honest." But it's not all bad. Farley says Thomas' work features a "crunching beat, brash...
...only real scoring threat of the half came five minutes before halftime. Karen Linsley stickhandled skillfully through the Jumbo defense and let loose a screecher which was saved by the goalie...
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