Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Akers' famous rages still echo around the Sun-Times. Double chins aquiver, he used to storm into the city room regularly and lambast an errant reporter with apoplectic fury. Other times he would resort to the icy memo: "Let's print this newspaper in English...
...life farmer Jones and raised strawberries and so, when one spring morning he glanced out his window and spied a strawberry big as an echo satellite growing in his patch, he was ecstactic beyond description. He knew he'd be able to sell the fruit and retire on the profits. Immediately he telephoned the local strawberry appraiser to rush out, measure it, and tell him how much it would bring on the open market. Within an hour the appraiser arrived in his pick-up truck, but instead of taking out his measuring instruments he uprooted the strawberry, tossed it into...
Zazie and Hallelujah remained plotless, but Theodore Flicker, who made The Troublemaker, constructed his parody film around the story of a naive chicken farmer named Jack Armstrong who comes to New York to open a coffeehouse. Jack's refusal to pay off the various authorities was meant to echo Marlon Brando's fight with the Longshoremen's Union in On the Waterfront. The touch is far too heavy, and what could be somewhat effective humor gets bogged down in weary detail...
...sings. His Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, rendered in a heavy English Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose of echo-chamber effect, which makes him sound as if he had his head inside a fishbowl...
...Advocate is long on poets, and the best of them is Robert Grenier. In "The Minnesota Soldiers Home in August" and in translations of three poems by the German writer George Trakl, Grenier coaxes beautiful phonetic effects out of his descriptive language. Rhythmic vowel sounds and alliteration echo through his lines; Consonants roll melodically within his words...