Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tricks but cannot remember the melody. The Card Song is swallowed by a monstrous Dies Irae, and everything ignites into a Moog-synthesized musical holocaust. The montage of electronic sound forms a requiem on the word "love," with tunes and characters zooming by like meteoric memories. After a final shriek, only Hess's voice remains, sadly singing: "That's how it is, that's how it will be -and how it must have been...
...spokesman for a decaying, overburdened, but strangely charming establishment. "There is no lack of void," says Estragon, cap-turing in his words the twentiethcentury's ironic understanding of time and space. And the agony, the anomic, the anxiety, the sheer numbing ignorance of existence is what impassions Vladimir's shriek to an unhearing universe...
...film refuses to take sides with its characters, it adopts a firm stand toward its actors: it is against them. Producer-Director Richard Rush sets his cast at shriek level. Even the elegant Candice Bergen, who at last seems ready to break through plaster casting (The Magus, The Adventurers), is given too much to yell and not enough to say. Elliott Gould is a natural clown; his hands are an act in themselves, and his hair seems to be coiling for a strike. Yet only once does Getting Straight allow him an original scene. At the oral exam...
...slides. Since early February, nearly 200 inches of new snow have fallen on some parts of the Alps, and intermittent thaws have loosened its grip in many places. Blizzards have also caused sliding; the sound of the avalanche at Reckingen, for example, could not even be heard above the shriek of 70-m.p.h. winds. Avalanche warnings have been common all winter, especially in Switzerland, which has the world's best detection facilities (see SCIENCE). Even so, few residents pay much attention to them. Says one expert: "It's nature's whim and we have to live with...
...With a Debate, let us now make an End of this Rebellion." He continued in a firm shriek over the non-stop Brays, "All Issues will be openly discussed! All that is required is that the Loser promise to attend the VOICE of REASON and obey to the Winner without Question...