Word: clack
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They destroyed the biggest with a saw and axe Felling the trees and raising the tax But they didn't hear the clack, clack, clacks As the minuteman ran to the window, window, window...
Huff-puff, huff-puff clackety clack it goes. Puffpuffpuffpuff, faster and faster and louder and louder. The whistle wails, and the monstrous noise comes on and on and on and on, straight at the listener. His eyes pop open, his hands grip the arms of his chair in sweaty terror. His eyebrows shoot up past his hairline. As the final shattering wallop thunders in his head, the train runs right smack over him and he topples backward in a shuddering trance...
...inevitable discovery of what his true love does for a living. When they break up, her grief is touching, and so is his ignorance. It should be added that Writer Burton Wohl's dialogue is excellent, even though his story is deficient. The lines have the unlovely clack of reality, and hearing Actors Albright and Marlowe say them is closer to hiding under the sofa than anything else in films this summer...
...CRIME he said and the words kept drumming and dinning and the poor CRIME-eds sweating and the galumphing of the press clack clack clackity-click of the typewriter all this is still...
...scene, for anybody who has indulged in Nevada's favorite public pastime, was familiar. The room was quiet except for the snap of cards, the clack of poker chips and murmuring of the players. At nine tables, the gamblers played stud, low ball, twenty-one or panguingui. The cards were dealt, the winners raked in the pots. Then, at 3:20 p.m., a bugle blew, and all the players got up and went back to their cells. Gambling at Nevada's State Prison in Carson City was closed...