Word: screeching
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...Santana, Queen, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Waits, Ronnie Laws and Jesse Colin Young albums, but hell, I can't review everything, I have my own Christmas cheer to ingest. And, no, Donna Summer does not have a disco version of Jingle Bells--Jingle, gasp, oh, oh, a, eee, bells, Jingle, screech bells--out, so rest easy. Put in a good word with the Santa on the comer for me, but make sure he isn't from one of those cults first
...movie like a haunted little ham, carrying the weight of the Holocaust on his feeble shoulders. The character pushes himself--the way Olivier must have pushed himself to do this role while in and out of the hospital for heart surgery--and suddenly he'll erupt with a screech so charged that this comatose movie wakes up and shakes itself...
Hurley advanced on the honor guard of disheveled soldiers, stood for a moment, and then let out a loud screech-"Yahoo!" -giving the Choctaw yell of his native Oklahoma. We gaped; but this was President Roosevelt's choice. That evening, since the Communists had already prepared a banquet in honor of the November 7 anniversary of the great Russian Revolution, we were all invited. At that banquet, when Hurley was called on to speak, he rose, paused, and then yelled again at the top of his lungs, "Yahoo...
...some reason she has given the film an on-screen chorus whose androgynous members offer polemical asides about the hero's behavior; these cretins raise the film's misanthropic tone to a screech...
...Green Line is the most distinctly Bostonian of the four iron mole lines. The tracks make crazy turns, the cars' wheels screech terribly, and the cars are too small--more streetcars taken underground than proper subway cars. The passengers are nearly a cross-section of the city's population. With stops at Northeastern University, Boston College, and at least a dozen other schools, the Green Line gets plenty of students, but it also gets much more than the 19-to-27 crowd that sometimes starts to seem like the only possible age group in the Square--it's a major...