Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky is only one of a whole galaxy of bright new stars that have set off a cheery din compounded of the click of turnstiles and the clack of sportswriters' typewriters. Others...
...phonograph drove the parlor tenor to the bathtub. Now Columbia Records' Mitch Miller is trying to lure him out from behind his shower curtain. Miller, a now inaudible oboist who is nonplaying captain of Columbia's pop musicians, worked up a gimmick just corny enough to click: a chorus of 28 men singing simple, slow arrangements of the old, golden songs, and an album-jacket invitation to listeners to join in the schmalz...
...world that the Communist Party wants and works for, a case of subversion could be handled with a commissar's rubber stamp and the click of a key in a cell door. But it took the U.S. nine years-from 1950 to last week-just to get the Communist Party of the U.S. legally labeled subversive...
...Course became a sedate People's Park; the famed Shanghai Club, where British merchants had dozed over month-old copies of the London Times, a seamen's club; Blood Alley, where sailors used to break each other's heads in chauvinistic brawls, resounded only to the click of chopsticks in cooperative noodle shops. Bars and dance halls and opium dens closed down; prostitutes and beggars vanished from the newly swept streets...
...frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing...