Word: clicked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concentrate most on a romance between an exuberant young singer in a hot road band (Janis Paige) and a repressed young apartment manager who busts out by banging the traps (well-banged by Jackie Cooper). There are moments of fun and stretches of farcicality. But even the parts that click are glaringly machine-made. What is most disappointing, in terms of Lindsay & Grouse, is less their being wide of the mark than their choice of a target...
...games are played on maneuver-area battlefields with sweat, dust, mud, and all the roaring, dangerous machines of modern war. Last week at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, quiet men in a quiet room were playing another sort of strategic war game. The only battle noise was the click of switches as electric impulses flashed through intricate circuits...
...switches click in the quiet room, cities and industrial centers of both sides turn to electronically simulated rubble. Stockpiles are exhausted. Air bases grow empty of airplanes and bomb dumps empty of bombs. At last the needle of one dial creeps down to zero. This means that one of the contenders-blasted, paralyzed, probably radioactive-has lost all its air power. The game is over...
...some radio shows and smalltown concert dates, but his voice would not work the way he wanted it to, nor pay the bills he was piling up in high living. Lanza, was broke, hoarse and dispirited, but his luck was just about to click again. One day at a singing coach's studio he met a sunny little realtor named Sam Weiler, a man with plenty of money and a great yearning to be a singer. Realtor Weiler was ready to face up to the fact that he himself was no Caruso, and never would be. He listened...
Vardis Fisher's latest volume, the sixth in his ficto-stenographic history of civilization, is less a novel than a pedantic, prurient diatribe against one of the best-publicized kings Israel ever had. Solomon (loth Century B.C.) is presented as a sort of Old Testament Sammy Click with chin whiskers, a tough little opportunist who elbows his way into the big money, marries a glamour girl (Khate, an Egyptian princess), and hires a frustrated poet to ghost his copy-even, it would seem, such copy as the Book of Proverbs...