Word: shriekings
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...yourselves against Mack's stringent requirements. First, you'll have to be the hyper-virile type, because among all gays, "effeminacy, in speech, looks, or mannerisms, is very common." Then you'll have to bring your voice down a few octaves, because "their is a tendency to whine and shriek." And don't pay too much attention to your appearance, because, of course, "gays show much greater vanity." But be gorgeous. Be very, very gorgeous. Mack has been disappointed with the selection thus far: "Many straight guys I know are good-looking, [but are you, Mack?] but the gays...
...went nuts--further nuts, that is. The din of their air horns sounded like a Swiss national-emergency call. At least half a dozen fan clubs, most of them from the vicinity of their idol's native Bologna, follow him from race to race these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what...
...such critics as Harold Rosenberg. In short, he was very interested in style, a suspect idea then but one that his paintings are none the worse for raising. We can't see Kline the way the art world did 40 years ago, when critics wrote about his "desperate shriek" or his "total and instantaneous conversion" to black and white. Ab Ex was less apocalyptic than its fans once thought, and Kline...
...when he has been seen publicly in mufti. On the way up, they passed a group of German hikers descending the slope. John Paul greeted the group briefly in German and walked on. When the tourists were about 30 yards down the mountain, Navarro heard one of the women shriek, "Gott im Himmel! It was the Pope...
...music seems to have fun any more. Rapsters, grunge artists, even balladeers -- their faces are all contorted into an Edvard Munch shriek, as if they were slaves to the agony of art. Hardly anyone wants to be an entertainer...