Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose a man trained to "respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command" (to bow and yell "Airborne" to a shout of "Hit it") is already partially dead...
...occasional incident of violence, there is little actual tension along most of the barrier; kids fly kites near by, housewives shout contemptuous gibes at Vopos on the other side; the Vopos shrug, reply with an obscene gesture or just silence. I saw the Communist cops watching curiously as an old man approached the Wall from the western side at Heidelberger-strasse. His yellow arm band showed he was blind. Shuffling up to the wire, he reached out to feel the enormity of the barrier for himself. A young West Berlin woman standing near by curled her lip and cried...
Jean Genet has been in prison, and his insights into the smothered aspirations and inarticulate regrets of jailed men are occasionally penetrating and even beautiful. But Louis Lopez-Cepere as the effeminate kid, Maurice, and George Quenzel as the poseur, LeFranc, shout and gesticulate until you can no longer hear M. Genet. Maurice is turned into such a hyperbolized fairy that his pathetic love and desperation become the cheapest banality. His real groping for affection is represented by nine or ten unctuous lunges at his cellmates. As for Quenzel, someone must have told him that the more important a line...
...soon as the Russians started their new series of nuclear tests in the atmosphere, it was clear that they could not have cared less how quickly the rest of the world learned about their latest tactic. Atmospheric tests are impossible to conceal; they shout their presence in varied voices, some of which carry for thousands of miles and can be detected in many ways...
...Late. For Berliners, the wall measured itself out in forbidding miles of personal tragedy. They gathered in little groups on both sides of the wall to wave handkerchiefs or shout cautiously worded greetings, sometimes climbing trees for a better look. ''My wife's over there with our little boy," explained one young Berliner looking east from Gartenstrasse. "We lived over there, but we knew we had to get out, so I rented a room over here and started bringing our things over a little at a time. They stayed there to cover up until...