Word: shoutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed to make you think preplanned thoughts while you're falling. You are supposed to think about the muscles in your body, the tension of the pull of your back parachute opening, the positions of your legs used to manipulate your orientation in the air. You are to count, shout, "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand" until your chute opens...
...Nicklaus. What happens to him in the process shouldn't happen to a golf ball. His nerve synapses collapse at the thought of the next day's match. His mind invents a nightmarish fantasy in which a team of inept Japanese admirals, located somewhere in his brain, shout useless instructions through the imaginary voice tubes of his creaking body machinery in an effort to help him hit the ball correctly...
...waitin' for somethin' to happen. Nothin' does. A leprechaun (Tommy Steele) wanders in, a lot of galvanic twitching goes on in the name of choreography, and eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody joins hands to shout out the coda, it is clear that this classic stage musical has wrinkled into senility. Perhaps, like the inhabitants of Shangri-La, it was condemned to instant old age the minute it left its proper environment...
perplexed whether to shout or moan...
...magazine. She served as a standby for Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! in 1964, became a favorite on the talk-show circuit with her mugging antics and raucous, snorting laugh. A tall, buxom brunette, she will cry, "When you're down and out, lift up your head and shout: I'm down...