Word: shriekings
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...with nerve enough to let the world see through to it. If she has the right shape and attitude, she can get away with anything from a bra and gypsy waistcoat to a blouse woven wholly out of cobwebs. Guardians of morality may frown in disfavor, girl friends may shriek in outrage and envy and husbands may either approve (when the woman is somebody else's) or glare silently (if she is his own). Still, more and more women are wearing less and less these days. Come summer, they are likely to show even more explicitly that the newest...
...David Hoffman had the camera!" the advertisements shriek. "Murray King had the guts!" All this hysterical flackery is on behalf of an ersatz documentary called King, Murray, which pompously passes itself off as a piece of "spontaneous fiction...
...this way, most of The Acid Test dips in and out of the consciousness of Kesey and his freaked-out disciples, and yet also manages to touch on many of the minds of the frightened and threatened in the old America--like the "unhip mama" with "the adrenal shriek: beat-nicks, bums, spades--dope...
...first pitch came in tight. I jumped back and my helmet flew off. There was this tremendous ringing noise. I couldn't stand it. Just a loud shriek all over me. I was trying to find some place in my mouth where I could get air through, but I couldn't breathe. I kept saying to myself, "Oh, God, let me breathe." I didn't think about my future in baseball. I just wanted to stay alive...
...puppet's swollen belly. Out from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping audience. "The Communists are coming-Help! Help!" shriek the onstage characters as they watch the approaching dragon. A puppet king, Vittorio Emanuele, pushes forward the shapely brunette in the bathing costume. "Only you, sweet Capitalism, can save us," he says. The dragon growls ferociously at the brunette and starts to wind itself around her body. She moves seductively...