Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents in The Bronx. He sleeps on a sofa couch in the living room "on the main trade route from the bedroom to the bathroom." When he stays out late with girls or comes home with liquor on his breath, he is treated to his mother's virtuoso sighs: "She was a kind of Toscanini of the sigh. She ranged from a lonely flute to a sixty-mile gale...
Jumping High. Johnny gave San Francisco a little of everything. Dressed in a shadow-striped, tuxedo-style suit with smudgy white bow tie, he hit Looking at You with a rubbery, infectious beat, breathed out There Goes My Heart in one elastic sigh, quavered in a high, thin falsetto through My One and Only Love. His phrasing was fresh, his diction irreproachable, his dramatic sense unfailing. But it was the intimate, haunting quality of his voice that brought the audience alive. It has a kind of choirboy innocence hooked with a Cole Porter leer...
Describing "the whole galaxy of climaxes." Author Hilliard ranged gushingly from the "one so slight that it is a sigh to one so profound and deep that it results in an agonizing cry ... a small death." On the other hand, the article added, "millions of women feel nothing at all." and the "timing of the climaxes can take five years to perfect." For the apprentice mate who cannot muster even a sigh. counseled Sexpert Hilliard, "the worthiest duplicity on earth" is to pretend to a man that "he can cause a flowering within her." By way of re-enlisting readers...
...Explorer whirled overhead, a sigh of relief that was almost audible swept the free world. AT LAST, proclaimed a banner headline in the Buenos Aires Herald, AN UNCLE SAMNIK...
...small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last I'm useful." Ah yes, Director Clair seems to sigh, the forces of law and order do have such a difficult time-good is almost impossible to stamp out. But then, so is evil, and in the end the moralist acknowledges that...