Word: clatterer
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...wanted to come to a glossy farewell reception: "Come, of course. And bring your wife. Just mention your name at the door." For the first time, the silken-draped Russian embassy was opened to TV cameras, and beneath the floodlights Matskevich stood sweating happily among 400 guests. Amid the clatter of good will could be heard snatches of U.S.-Russian conversation: "What is the impression after Geneva . . .?" "I was in the infantry myself . . ." "Maybe music can be the language to draw us closer together...
...milling newsmen (there were 1,400 assembled there) were already predicting that no real decisions would be reached at Geneva. Ignoring the portents, delegates doggedly cultivated the air of good fellowship. All up and down Geneva's shoreline, villas resounded with the clinking of glasses and the clatter of plates as Russians dined the British, British dined the Russians, Russians dined the French...
...tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall" and "Coal Oil Johnny," two policemen; "Speedway," a gambler; and "Dr. Scissors," a famed...
...each time with fresh postponements. But this failure to make a rendezvous with fission only brought out the essential pluck of the network newscasters. CBS's Charles Collingwood tried hard to keep his end up by filling in with a telecast from Las Vegas where, amid the clatter of one-armed bandits, he solemnly asked the proprietor of The Sands Hotel if he was used to A-blasts (he was). NBC's Dave Garroway was reported by his mates on the Today show as having dug his own trench out in Yucca Flat. Meanwhile, the desperate networks kept...
Television spent the week racing back and forth through history like a time machine. Omnibus set out heroically to recreate Homer's Iliad, and for 90 minutes the poetry was mostly drowned out in a clatter of tin swords on tin shields as Trojan and Greek struggled on the plain and seashore of Troy. The Trojans lost the war, but they won what few acting honors were available: Frederick Rolf displayed both majesty and grief as King Priam, while Michael Higgins' doomed Hector seemed far more a man and soldier than his rival, Achilles...