Word: screeching
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...college in a book or hear about it in school. Instead, Harvard first came alive to me as I was glued to my suburban Ohio console television set, watching Zach Morris and Jessie Spano take their SATs on the popular teenage sitcom Saved By the Bell. Zach, Slater, Screech and the gang tricked the stuffy admissions officer into admitting Jessie, only to realize over burgers and fries at the Max, that Harvard wasn’t the place for them...
...reach the southern end of Sector 6, a bloodcurdling screech rends the steamy, tropical air. Chatuchak is notorious for the exotic wildlife on sale, but the wailing is coming from the Ya Shop. Here, staff take turns in belting out tunes via a karaoke system, and a kid of about 12, decked out in 1970s Elvis shades, tight, dove-gray slacks and a snow-white Kangol cap, is happily murdering Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Ya Shop stocks the widest range of cheesy, fitted polyester shirts in Chatuchak (from 100 baht, or $2.50, upwards). But rather than...
...they wanted to experience it first: to sit in the dark, the shadow and light of space battle flashing on their spellbound faces. And they came back over and over again. I drove by at least one long, snaking line in Westwood, holding down the humiliating urge to screech, "Yes! I am Princess Leia Organa, come to tell you all, come to tell you all!" But what had I come to tell them? So I didn't say anything. I just stared in amazement and wondered what it would ultimately mean. And now, when...
Once in the dentist's chair, King's patients can use the attached flat-panel monitor to watch TV, play a DVD or surf the Web. Can't see the screen? No worries, there's one wired to the ceiling too. Noise-reduction headphones block the screech of the drill and play a CD of your choice, and the specially constructed dental chair channels the sound waves from the music into a full-body massage. "The more relaxed the patient is," says King, "the easier...
...rushed with her mother to the scene, where they identified him. Two miles away, unaware of the rippling circle of violence, Sarah Ramos was killed while sitting on a park bench, waiting for a ride. A witness reported seeing a white van with two occupants screech out of the area. Police began frantically stopping white vans, but a little more than an hour later, Lori Lewis Rivera was struck down while vacuuming her minivan outside a Shell station. At 9:20 p.m., about a 5-mi. drive from the last shooting, Pascal Charlot, 72, was cut down with a shot...