Word: whooshes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen for the rest of the action. They're practiced experts at predicting outcomes because the stuff on the tube has strict boundaries; it flows judiciously in the Nielsen main stream. What sustains a movie, then--because it can aim for a more limited audience--is that sense of whoosh-we're-taking-off-and-this-could-go-anywhere, a sense of being carried away...
...ocean before telling the Captain, "Lead me on." At the very end, while the Clown sings the stanzas of "When that I was," the remaining characters gradually depart, leaving him alone; when he is finished, he turns his back on us and gazes off across the water, whose whoosh is the last thing we hear...
...dawn to watch the train refuel before it heads across the 500-mile plain of Nullarbor (Latin for "not any tree"). The desolate limestone plateau is covered with sea fossils, saltbush, and red-flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith who, they say, did not go round a bend for five years...
...style of Horovitz's novel is really not far removed from his playwrighting style. The long flashbacks are very much like actors' soliloquies. His word choice is suggestive; he picks sounds out of the air and puts them into the sentences: "The daggered scoops drove heartily into each bale whoosh picked it up VZZZ carried it to the baths." He repeats words and sometimes even phrases in an effort to tie together ideas, though he is not as successful at it as Kurt Vonnegut. His connections do not possess the absurdity which enables Vonnegut to weave entirely distinct happenings into...
...second straight year of strong growth in jobs, income, production, sales, profits-so much so that one of the prognosticators' problems is keeping their predictions optimistic enough. Lately they have had to add a few billion dollars to their output forecasts because 1972 ended with such a whoosh. In fact they have a nagging suspicion that the economy may be accelerating a shade too rapidly, raising some danger that the upsurge could turn into the kind of inflationary blow-off that precedes not exactly a bust but a slump...