Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City subway train stocked with edgy white folks and one slouched and stuporous young black man, three inner-city toughs storm into the car. They shout at the black rider, then drag him to the floor and stomp on his face. The other passengers cringe, until the pummeling abruptly ceases and all four men rise smiling, as if for a curtain call. "Ladies and gentlemen!" one of the thugs intones with cultured geniality. "You have just witnessed another performance of Ghetto Theater...
Winnie's followers in the African National Congress, who call her Mother of the Nation, did shout outrage at her conviction last week by a white judge (South Africa does not have jury trials). Mandela and two codefendants had been accused of kidnapping four young black men from a Methodist minister's home in Soweto in December 1988 and beating them in a back room of the Mandela house. Judge Michael Stegman found Winnie to be only an accessory to the assault but decided that she had planned the kidnapping. Denouncing her as a "calm, composed, deliberate and unblushing liar...
...first-year students while a permanent dean is sought. Mackay-Smith, along with long-standing associate dean and famous dog-walker W.C. Burriss Young '55, will no doubt have a full agenda next year. Rumored to be top-priority: Whether to allow the Crimson Key to continue to shout inane comments at "Love Story...
...studio she could be harsh. She spoke in a whisper that was louder than a shout. On occasion she laughed heartily at her students' efforts. "With Martha," Richard Boone once said, "you get it right away or jump out the window." Glen Tetley, a protege in the 1950s, went on to become a ballet choreographer. Just before his first major premiere, he developed crippling back spasms; no one else knew his role. Graham solved the problem. Spying him in a cafeteria, she walked over and slapped his face hard. "You stand up there and go out and dance," she commanded...
...bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while nice Daddy watches quietly...