Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tarleton's daughter Hypatia (Deborah Kipp) is so restless under the inane constraints imposed on a gentlewoman that she has become engaged to a man who is a shrill teakettle of immaturity. When a handsome aviator (Geraint-Wyn Davies) and his Polish acrobat passenger (Carole Shelley) enter the Tarleton drawing room after their plane crashes into the greenhouse, verbal gunfire begins to crackle all along Shaw's battlefront...
...also "Africanizing" the liturgy in ways marked by high church attendance and great zeal. At a typical Mass the young priest dons a zebra's mane headdress while assistants, men and women alike, clap and shuffle around the altar to the throbbing of drums and an occasional shrill scream of religious ecstasy. The congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted on a Latin rite for this week...