Word: wail
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...failed. I fell into a sadness, then into a fast, thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, thence to a lightness, and by this declension, into the madness wherein now I rave, and all you wail...
Italy's muff-haired Domenico Modugno, a guitar-plunking crooner with a gypsy wail, turns out lyrics that make no sense, and he cannot read the music he composes and sings. But last year his song Volare (To Fly) was the world's biggest hit, with 7,000,000 records sold, including 2,000,000 for Decca Records in the U.S. alone. Last week Modugno, glowing in a powder-blue tuxedo, weepily twanged his latest effort, Piove (It's Raining), at the annual San Remo Song Festival, walked off with the festival prize-no cash...
...with the occasional addition of native rhythms. To foreign ears the simple 4/4 tempo of pennywhistle jazz may seem repetitious and childlike. To Africans living in crowded city locations, pennywhistle jazz evokes nostalgic country memories: the swaying of women at tribal weddings, the sound of ancient work songs, the wail of funeral dirges...
...point, as if stimulated by all the excitement she was causing, the queen seemed to rally. But then, one morning, as a chill wind blew, the men began to wail, the women shed their jewelry, and throughout the encampment the gypsies sipped a scalding special brew out of silver-plated cups. They dressed the queen in her best flowered skirt, put shiny new shoes on her feet, ringed her wrists and fingers with gold. Only a few minutes before, having received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Queen Mimi had whispered, "Forgive whoever does wrong," and then closed...
...Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street shortly after noon one day last week and saw the most horrible sight a museum man can imagine. Smoke was pouring from his museum's shattered glass façade; firemen were scrambling up ladders, axes in hand. In the distance was the wail of more fire engines bucking Manhattan traffic to answer the three alarms signaling the worst museum fire in U.S. history...