Word: wail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gutsy Wail. Brown reasons that "to get people to listen to you, you first have to get their attention." He should know. Like other rhythm-and-blues singers, he has been largely unknown in the U.S. outside the Negro community. In Britain, however, Brown and other blues merchants such as Joe Turner, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker are the idols after which the big-beat groups from the Beatles on down have fashioned their music. That the U.S. pop-music market so readily adopted the synthetic British translation of a purely American idiom made Brown see red. To promulgate...
...outrageous ways onstage, Brown is a singer in the best blues tradition. Vented in pulsating rhythms, his raspy voice is fired with gospel fervor and a gutsy, lowdown wail. It is "soul music," sung in a Deep South argot and tinged with a melancholy that no" white singer can imitate...
...children's childhood is being snatched from them by greedy adults [March 11]. We have endured the pre-teen-bra era and the pre-teen coketail party. Now we are faced with children aping the sad folksinger types. How tragic that the "nubes" wail of lost loves before the age of ten! If we lower the level of disturbance much more, prenatal psychiatrists will be needed...
...were running a controlled experiment to see how much chilled sweat could be squeezed from the audience's brow. He uses every weapon in the theatrical arsenal to mount a sustained barrage on the senses. A sound track assaults the ear with insinuation ranging from the wail of a solitary violin to the menacing timpani of wooden spoons. Eerie moans and whimpers fill the air like the cries of lost souls, recorded in limbo. A clownishly decked-out Greek chorus of whores and fools breaks into gritty tunes and cynical ditties on the age's corruption that evoke...
...brother (Alec Guinness). The device seems awkward at times, but the flashbacks spring vividly to life on their own. The couple's first wordless encounter takes place aboard a tramcar in Moscow, and the headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where Lara and her mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) and his family away to the relative safety of the Urals; and Lean bears down...