Word: screeching
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...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...
Most of you have probably seen "Psyho," Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of suspense and lunacy, at some time or another. It's one of those films that has achieved the status of American institution, like "Casablanca" or "Citizen kane." The Shower Scene. The screech-screech noise. Need I say more...
...group's debut CD starts off with Farrell's screech, "I got the devil in me," and ends with a song in which he gives a woman her first-ever orgasm: "Sit back/ And get yourself relaxed," he soothes. The group's name comes from a fireworks ad that Farrell spotted in a dirty magazine; on the album, the phrase porno for pyros is also used as a lyrical description of last year's L.A. uprising. That kind of juxtaposition -- psychedelic sexuality matched with social commentary -- is the strength of the album. The wild abandon of the imagination is connected...
...anything or crowding him, he would still just rather not have them around. I assume that Mr. Heller recognizes that we are doing what we can to teach our children good manners, but that as they are one and three years old they will from time to time still "screech" in public...
...cheerfully lives up to Bible-thumpers' expectations: "We'll make a deal, you'll grow your hair/ As Satan's child you'll start a band/ And spread the word across the land." Every parent's favorite metal god, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, even lends his signature screech to the backing vocals of this track...