Word: wails
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...Oooo-ow, Mom!" Most of us know that despairing wail, the cry of offspring on whom a parent has inadvertently visited heartrending shame: when we have overdressed or underdressed for some public outing with the kids in tow or cracked a dumb joke or otherwise called unwarranted attention to ourselves...
...using power tools without wearing earplugs. And on weekends she keeps her windows closed. "Some mornings you can't walk outside because so many people are using their power mowers," she laments. "It's very noisy out there." Who would dispute it? From the roar of airplanes to the wail of sirens, the blast of stereos to the blare of movie sound tracks, noise is a constant part of American life. But few go to the lengths Russ does to avoid it. Noise is annoying and frustrating -- and accepted...
...throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama: it's berserk Sirk...
...Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come...
...star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma as the musician, and American tenor-sax legend Hal Singer blesses the project with his presence. At last May's Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Blues won the best-director prize. Today it has both news and nostalgic value. We can hear it wail, in a minor key, from the sweet and recent past: the early days of Soviet freedom, which seem only a prelude to the birth of the blues...