Word: wail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that means flinging in poetry from Byron, music from Beethoven or borrowings from the past 20 years of avant-garde theater, so be it. His stage effects are frequently apt and memorable. When Dantes is thrown into a dungeon, he and a grizzled fellow prisoner (David Warrilow) wail about their plight as their bodies sink beneath the stage. Soon only their heads are visible, lighted starkly from below, in a striking, Beckett-like image of existential despair...
Across town, customers of Home State kept up a wail of protest because their savings will remain frozen until authorities find a healthier partner to take over the shuttered bank. About 3,000 depositors gathered last week at Xavier University's field house for an emotional rally to urge the state to speed up action. New York's Citicorp has emerged as the prime merger candidate. A host of state and federal investigators are looking into Home State's ties with E.S.M. Government Securities, a Fort Lauderdale dealer in Treasury bills and bonds whose March 4 closing forced Home State...
...will not be accused of screaming at her children: "I was using my loud voice." Instead she will display a compulsion for propriety at all costs. "Let's not talk about it any more," she exclaims. "It's a holiday!" And on holiday, Sternhagen's trill ascends to a wail, and she practically flutters into orbit over her brood...
...persisted until I relented, put her waffles in the toaster, lifted her up on her chair, and gave her a glass of cranberry-orange juice. Soon thereafter, the baby started to wail from lack of attention. It was then that I knew I could never be a mother...
...ACTORS PLAY their roles dutifully and perceptively, but too often they tend to wail and to repeat the same frenzied gestures. Appearing overwhelmed by their characters' anguish, they give the production a pretentious note of melodrama. As James Tyrone, Kevin Walker seems the archetypal rough-edged Irishman: loving--if slightly clumsy--towards his wife, self-righteous and defensive towards his sons. But his mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities...