Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What happened to splash this sudden dazzle of national limelight over the nonentity from Pine Bluff...
...understand why he had come into the world without a voice. Everyone else seemed to have a voice. Why didn't he? "Fate is cruel," he thought. "Fate is cruel to me." . . . Soon they joined the others, and everyone started water games, and Louis joined in, dipping and splashing and diving and twisting. Louis could splash water farther than any of the others, but he couldn't shout while he was doing it. To be able to shout while you are splashing water is half...
Voices, indistinct, across dark water. One is heavy, asking; the other soft, answering. It is almost possible to make out words. Two boys, wild with the dark, swim near to listen, from the island where they have been camping. As they approach the neighboring island of the voices, a splash betrays them. The heavy voice rages. A shot slaps the water. The boys dive, frog-swim, drift, reach shore, and lie safe and ignorant in the chill. What were the voices saying...
...song has already sold 700,000 copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly during "tubby time" for kids and adults alike, who seem unable to resist its splash-splash counterpoint, quack-quack obbligato, and cheerful pop-style parody of the 1930s Hit Parade...
...there, and Fairchild flies down almost every weekend to loll in a hammock, barbecue steaks on the outdoor fireplace and splash gingerly in the gentle surf...