Word: clinkering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks out of the year, the tiny Isle of Man (221 sq. mi.) sits placidly in the Irish Sea, a quaint clinker of Celtic culture, noted mostly for its kippers and cats. But once a year the Isle is hell on wheels. Sandbags guard the sidewalks, the blat-a-tat of racing engines shatters the quiet, and gravediggers thoughtfully lay out new plots in Borough Cemetery. "Tourist Trophy Week" is at hand-and thousands of motorcycle riders arrive for a five-day carnival of racing over one of the world's most perilous courses...
...Frenchified elegance from the opera and restoring some of the wildness of Spain in the 1820s. The 400 or so local fans perched at the top of the house (in "Paradise") began muttering as soon as Tenor Martell sang his first line, started shouting when he nervously hit a clinker...
...perhaps may not even survive as president of his studio. The Longest Day cost $10 million to put in the can, more than any black-and-white picture ever produced, and Fox is by no means certain to get all its money back. Not that the picture is a clinker. As Hollywood epics go, it goes well enough. It is long (3 hrs.), but it is never boring. Some of the skirmishes that flare up in the darkness make mighty exciting cinema. Some of the comic relief from combat-a paratrooper who falls from the skies beside a little...
...triumphant two-night stand in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition four years ago. He even got his first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita Sergeevich." But Nikita, already hurrying backstage for a private dinner party with the toast of the town...