Word: shrilled
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...still the angering hum of change, Duncan listens only to the harmonic rhythm of the seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where...
...tested rating tonic, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley. Yet Presley's pelvis-wagging in his last appearance on the Sullivan Show had raised a howl from many viewers. The solution: Sullivan cut Elvis in half; i.e., his cameras televised Presley exclusively above the belt, so that only the shrill of studio fans signaled the action below. Sullivan won a Trendex rating of 46.2, his highest yet. For Presley-haters there was little comfort but the wishful hope that by showing no pelvis, Sullivan had started a trend that would lead to showing no Elvis...
...biological bother," and in extreme cases, a record collection becomes a "symbolic harem." Significantly, says Psychiatrist Bowes (married, no children), an addict's wife almost always demands that the volume be turned down: "Perhaps in the male's interest in hi-fi she senses a rival, as shrill and discordant as herself...
...some of her colleagues did last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. It began, more or less, during a matinee of Lucia di Lammermoor which was broad cast from coast to coast. Often Callas sang superbly, notably in the famous mad scene, but sometimes she sounded as shrill as static, and during her second-act duet with Baritone Enzo Sordello she dropped her highest note like a hot knife, while Baritone Sordello held his. What happened next could be the script for a third-rate opera buff...
...Emil Gilels, piano; David Oistrakh, violin; U.S.S.R. State Radio Orchestra conducted by Kiril Kondrashin; Westminster). The modern master of melodic and harmonic surprises at his popular best, played by instrumental masters who know just how every phrase should be turned. The results of Soviet recording techniques are a bit shrill, but clear...