Word: blaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lear takes no notice of them even when they begin to paw him. Suddenly, we hear the women's voices, repeating lines from earlier scenes--but the words don't come from the stage; the actresses are silent. These disembodied voices blare over the same loudspeakers that have simulated the storm for ten minutes. In the din--enough to drive anyone mad--poor Lear's voice drops out, his volcanic speeches unheard, his personal apocalypse mastered by a 50-watt amplifier...
...always want to dance. As a child he worked as an alter boy in his church and set his sights on the priesthood. But he says his sister encouraged him to take tap lesson. He loved it and began to make up his own pieces to the blare of a jukebox in a neighborhood pool room. He was winning amateurs' contests in his mid-teens and touring before he was 20, appearing in nightclubs throughout the U.S., Canda, and Europe...
...weekends, downtown Los Angeles' Broadway is a teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated...
...images, not its players. Nowhere is this more evident than in the film's final scenes, when the action shifts from the farm to a bustling nearby town of 1917. Suddenly we are in the death throes of oldtime America: smiling dough boys hop on trains to the blare of brass bands. At that moment Days of Heaven effortlessly transcends its own story to prefigure the history of an era. As Malick's characters lost their innocence on a ravaged wheatfield in Texas, so would a nation on the bloody battlefields of the first World War. - Frank Rich
...across Portugal, cities and towns reverberated with the blare of loudspeakers and the roar of party rallies. Walls everywhere were plastered with posters peeling in the light spring rains. After three weeks of hard campaigning, as well as some bloodshed-at least three lives were lost in pre-election violence-some 5.4 million Portuguese went to the polls calmly, as if benumbed, to cast ballots in the nation's first free parliamentary elections in half a century. As they did a year ago, in elections for a Constituent Assembly, the returns suggested that if there was a consensus...