Word: shriek
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...answer should be obvious. But people can’t hear themselves think over the hysterical shriek of PSLM protesters long enough to arrive at it. And it doesn’t help that the PSLM articulates the living wage issue in such biased terms that dissenters are in risk of being branded lunatics, Nazis or—worst of all—Republicans. Even the term “living wage” is so loaded that it eliminates any hope for sane discussion. Who could be against giving people a “living wage”? Does...
...capital O thrown in for good measure. In Blue is to music what Last Action Hero was to cinema: the apotheosis of a certain kind of mindless cookie-cutter workmanship, like Warhol without the ironic distance. The only track on the album that doesn't just shriek with brain-bursting insignificance is the instrumental last track, "Rebel Heart." The fiddle from previous Corr albums is back, albeit surrounded by the same MIDI-file accompaniment that infests the rest of this God-forsaken album. "Rebel Heart" is worse than, say, the least interesting track on the Braveheart soundtrack, but at least...
...violating FCC shriek regulations b) obscenity c) playing too much Foghat d) the benefit of the listener...
...diagnosed with prostate cancer. His marriage of many years cracks apart, and he handles it maladroitly, announcing the breakup to the world without bothering to tell his wife that the marriage is over. His affair with another woman becomes a feast for tabloids. The private Rudy seems to shriek confirmation of his enemies' suspicions about the public Rudy...
...friends to turn off the church's air conditioning system (successfully, but this was an extremely bad idea). My teachers, faced with a classroom of people like me, needed to reach the lowest common denominator. We watched Rambo, ate many donuts and played a lot of run-around-and-shriek games. If there was a message in there, I usually missed it--I learned Christianity as well as you learn social theory from watching Jerry Springer...