Word: screechingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...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...
Shoichi Yokoi, 57, the Japanese Imperial Army corporal who only last January emerged from his World War II hiding place in the jungle of Guam, found the contemporary world rather unsettling. Modern women, particularly, struck him as "monsters" who "screech like apes." Now, apparently, he has found an old-fashioned girl to marry: Mihoko Hatashin, 44, a war widow. Said Mihoko: "We can now communicate with each other by eyes, though we don't talk to each other much." The couple's expected honeymoon site: Guam...
With a quick swerve to the right reminiscent of Steve McQueen in "Bullit," I took the ramp at a brisk 65 mph. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was going too fast. Screech, I drove my foot down on the brakes. Lulled into a false sense of security, my two friends awoke to find the car skidding and spinning out of control between the two guard rails. After one and a quarter exciting revolutions the car came to a stop that left us straddling the ramp, and, needless to say, a bit shaken...