Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first be fitted with a coded description. Fed with the necessary information, and given instructions relating to the key of the composition, its length, and the number of instruments, Gamma Three then attacks the problem of composing exactly as it would an abstruse mathematical equation. Switches are thrown, relays click and the bulky machine punches out on tape a swift stream of chord combinations that meet the composer's requirements...
...Click. The nine ball plops into the side pocket, the cue ball hits one cushion and stops near the center spot. Big as a water tower but light on his feet, with a diamond ring on a pudgy finger, the fat man moves around the table. For 31 consecutive hours, with an almost incredible repertoire of masse shots, bank shots, gather shots, and combinations, with just enough English and the right amount of draw, he has been defending his reputation as the best there is. He chalks up and shoots again. Click. The 15 ball slams into the corner...
...Russell leaped with him leaning into Wilt just enough to disturb his delicate aim. By half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only in the second half, when Russell relaxed, did Chamberlain begin to click. By game's end, the duel had turned into something of a standoff: Chamberlain had scored 52 points, but the Celtics won, 123-113. "Winning is the important thing," said Team Man Russell, as he slouched wearily off the floor. "If a sorcerer told me, Til break your...
...camera. But when someone asked about a scar on her knee, she proved that her ad libs remained as freewheeling as ever. "Oh, that," said Sarah. "The Archduke of Austria gave me a ride on his motorcycle, and I fell off. He didn't bow and scrape and click, but he said he was the archduke. And he wanted me to come home with him and meet Mother Archduchess...
...sang-with the jukebox in the tavern where her mother worked, with the Venice (Calif.) High School dance band, with a harmony group for the Elks Club. Finally came the Big Audition-with Tommy Oliver's band at the Deauville country club in Santa Monica, and the Big Click. A demonstration disk played for Warner Bros. record company resulted in her first album, Positively the Most, a title artfully designed to rhyme with Drost. But Joanie had already decided the Drost was dross as far as names went, tried out Joan St. Clair, Joanie Post, and finally decided...