Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead End Kid. This impression is reinforced by the physical picture-his lumbering bonhomie, his carefully cultivated 5 o'clock shadow, his habit of lying disheveled on floor or sofa, an attitude he liked to assume for photographers. "He belched in public," notes Rovere rather primly and adds: "[He had] the perverse appeal of the bum, the mucker, the Dead End kid, the James Jones-Nelson Algren-Jack Kerouac hero...
...gimmick, but still effective. When Falstaff says, "There's my purse," he reluctantly drops a small, silent pouch--obviously empty. The wives make a big point of exchanging the love letters to be sure each has the right one, when both letters are identical. Ford's "The clock gives me my cue" is accompanied by strokes on a cow-bell. When Falstaff is smuggled out in the laundry basket, the wives have to sidle along together to hide Falstaff's enormous hat from the jealous eyes of Ford. After Falstaff has drunk some sack, he is still conveniently soaking...
...very small ship to cope for months with the North Atlantic in all its ferocious moods. She had a rather feeble engine, but sails were her main reliance. Such a laboratory makes oceanography a rugged science. While the little ship rolls and pitches, the scientists work round the clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts or underdrawers; on North Atlantic cruises the men are generally cold and wet, and during the first week at sea most of them get seasick. "The best seagoing oceanographers...
...scenes; for instance, the Capulets' ball gets under way before Romeo and his pals on the street outside have finished their say. The resulting production has a running time of two and a half hours. It was inexcusable, however, to omit the prologue speeches, even to accommodate the clock...
...Alarm. A bed that wakes the sleeper in the morning by raising him to a sitting position was announced by the Simmons Co. Plugged into a clock radio, the motorized bed rises slowly when the timer turns on the radio, TV, coffee percolator and phonograph, can also be raised for nighttime TV watching or meals in bed. Price...