Word: wails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mostly to settle the time issue that prosecutors spent much of Thursday and Friday constructing a wrenching sequence of events that led to the discovery of the bodies. One neighbor testified that he heard the "plaintive wail" of a dog beginning around 10:20 on the night Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed. Another told how he was led to the murder scene by Nicole's agitated dog, which had blood on its paws. A third spoke of seeing blood trailing down from Nicole Simpson's body. "I remember," said Bettina Rasmussen, "it was coming down like a river...
...frantic dog that led passersby to the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman near midnight on June 12. And it was the wail of a canine earlier that prosecutors suggest marked the moment of Nicole's and Ronald's murders, at about 10:20 p.m. -- more than an hour before O.J. headed for the airport. The defense offered some of its own drama by handing over a sealed package of "evidence," to be opened at an undetermined date. The scramble to find the murder weapon continues too; the prosecution seems set on proving it was a stiletto-type...
...Publishing; 00 pages; $0.00) is making its own noise in book stores. Rhino Records has issued The Spike Jones Anthology, a handsome, 40- song dose of the band's top tunes, including the chirping, barking, cackling Love in Bloom and the magnificent Hawaiian War Chant, which climaxes with a wail of electric-guitar dissonance that predates Jimi Hendrix by 20 years. A quirkier collection -- Spiked!, on Catalyst -- has some prime oddities, notably a suave, six-part ribbing of The Nutcracker Suite (1945), which must count as one of the earliest "concept albums...
...clear what inspires Peck's musical eclecticism, and how he imagines it to all hold together. Adding a polished studio saxophone wail to a folk guitar song does nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds like it belongs on Sting's last album. Add in a trumpet solo (as Peck does on many tunes), a walking bass and sampled strings, and you have a very curious tune. It has the same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices...
...etched in acid. Bogosian is politically incorrect enough to play an unappetizing street black, arrogant enough to enact an egomaniacal fan and complex enough to risk a jolting tirade against "starving Africans" who, by their unsettling omnipresence on the evening news, "spoil everything." This rant is at once a wail over injustice and a plea for the surcease of not caring -- and it makes audiences careen between those poles of feeling...