Word: blackboarding
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...semaphore school of Shakespearean gestures is represented by Jack Hawkins who plays Mercutio. Mr. Hawkins also subscribes to the school which supplements Shakespeare's images with diagrams swiftly drawn on an imaginary blackboard. This is especially disconcerting when he illustrates the abundant sexual images in a way which leads one to believe that he does not know their meaning. He redeems himself, however, by playing the death scene quite nicely; much of his success here and in other spots is due to the necessary relaxation of his grating voice and moving hands...
Ford hit on the idea of putting impromptu lessons on TV. He set up desks, a blackboard, maps and globes in his studio, rounded up half a dozen teachers. From 9 a.m. to 11, he had storytelling for the first-grade level, deeper stuff (geography, science) for older children. Just how many Minneapolis youngsters were tuning in Ford couldn't be sure, but he planned to carry on for the duration of the strike...
...young boy I overheard the other day was explaining to his mother about a blackboard set he had his heart set on. The sales lady treated his arguments with a certain scorn and pointed out that blackboards, after all, were made for little children; was he sure that a nice photo-electric cell, or potentiometer wouldn't be better...
...Stan Getz, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano (New Jazz LP). These three 10-in. LP records contain the last beads on the lunatic fringe of "cool" jazz. At times the music of these small combos is as weird as a hashish dream or as annoying as fingernails on a blackboard, but they occasionally manage (when the piano rides above the saxophones) some pleasant, if disorganized, sounds...
...strokes a minute-to get away from the inshore current. Then she settled down to an eight-kick, 32-beat pace, broken only by pauses for lumps of sugar four times an hour. At 11:30 a.m., her father, following in a trawler, chalked a cheerful message on a blackboard: "Only three more miles...