Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bang, said Rudolf Bing, and for the first time in the 81-year history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the only ones standing were the ushers. The Met general manager, 62, blames standees for pepping up applause with "uncontrolled shouting, screaming and crazy yelling," and says: "I will not have a Beatle-type performance going on." Moreover, they don't know how to dress. "I don't want them to come in white tie or in black tie. But I do want them to come in a tie." Still, the Met without standees is like Yankee...
...railroad flares, followed by a shaggy pony pulling a cart containing Barry, who waved from beneath a buffalo robe. But crowds were not overwhelming, applause was skimpy, and after two days in New Hampshire it was becoming clear that Goldwater's campaign was not producing the whiz-bang reaction he had hoped...
...large gong, and an open, bottom C on the cello; or again the celeste, Violin, and the clarinet. At other times, the solo violin and cello luxuriate in close and shifting harmonies. Elsewhere, Kirchner indulges in bombastic percussion: a fast run in the clarinet or strings leads to a bang...
Much the same situation dignifies Maximov's novel, A Man Survives (Grove). Seryosha, his young hero, of ten spouts familiar teen-age protests. "I hate the whole world," he shouts at one point. "I hate everybody who has the right to bang his fist on the table, to give marks." But the reader is mistaken who thinks he is listening in on James Dean complaining to Dad because he can't have the family car for a double date. Seryosha's father has been taken away by the NKVD, and the boy has encountered in Joseph Stalin...
...signals. The referee called time-out-in the meantime Army lost 20 seconds. When play resumed, Halfback Waldrop barreled to the two. Now there were 16 seconds left. Quickly, Army lined up. Once more, the din drowned Stichweh's signals. Once more, he pleaded for silence. Bang! The game was over...