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...course, the whole shebang, Introduction 1, rats in cages and schmuck cosmic questions. Like this exam I had to take. The first question was 'What is up?', can you believe it, what is up! What is up!" At this point Kimberly broke into a wildfire cackle that became a screech. She continued, "Well, I sat there for three hours and couldn't do it. So I turn this blank paper and they let me sit there for three more hours and I still can't do it. So they tell me to come back in a week...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lady Star Dust | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...right senses believes that if the massive thrust of Egyptian and Syrian tanks on October 6 were to have succeeded in its objects, they would have come to a halt on the sand near the '67 boundaries, stepped on the brakes with a loud, victorious screech and said, "Here we stop." What nonsense! The very massiveness of the forces engaged proves that in October 1973 they decided on a total assault on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEBATE: Another Round in the War of Words | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...these days. They improvise from the same spirituals and rags and blues they've played for a halfcentury and throw in a "Hello Dolly" so that everyone hears a song he knows. Their playing sounds like the earliest jazz records, though you can hear more than the blended brass screech and the knock of the woodblock that were often all that acoustical recording could capture...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Jazz Preserved | 3/15/1973 | See Source »

...last we have a ceasefire, but an important question still remains unresolved. Where, when and against whom will our vociferous anti-everythings now direct their vituperative "freedom of screech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1973 | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...music. One hallmark of the Crumb style is his fondness for programmatic schemes that can be startling and bizarre, but usually display his uncanny knack for drawing unfamiliar sounds from familiar instruments. "A kind of parable on our troubled world," to quote the composer, Black Angels uses the surrealistic screech of amplified strings to call forth the grim world of night insects in a way the listener is not likely soon to forget. Elsewhere, the players trill with thimble-capped fingers, bow crystal glasses tuned with water, even play maracas and tam-tams. What others might have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Records: Pick of the Pack | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

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