Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oceania two-way "telescreens" monitored every citizen's movements, reminded him every minute of every day: BIG BROTHER is WATCHING YOU. Oceania was the fictional country in George Orwell's 1984, but in real life 1961, the same eerie consciousness of being under intimate, round-the-clock surveillance weighs heavily on every U.S. official who lives and works in a Communist state. Electronic eavesdropping has become so insidious and ubiquitous an art behind the Iron Curtain that there is hardly a single spot where a Western diplomat-or even a vacationer-can talk with utter certainty that...
Anderson's music has infiltrated the public ear most persuasively through television's Late Show, its theme music is from a mesmeric Anderson work known as Syncopated Clock ("Everybody does tick-tock pieces, but nobody ever gave them a syncopated twist before"). Anderson, 53, writes what he calls "concert music with a pop quality"-compositions that rely heavily on acoustical effects and rarely run longer than three minutes. Most popular Anderson concert piece last season was Sleigh Ride, a jog-trotting exercise complete with sleigh bells (jingled by a percussionist) the crack of a whip (two hinged pieces...
Died. Kenneth Flexner Fearing, 59, minor Kipling of the asphalt jungle, a Chicago corporation lawyer's son who became a proletarian poet during the Depression, a pseudonymous pulp-primer and novelist of such high-voltage thrillers as The Big Clock; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...boarded his yacht without hat or coat, spent much of the two-hour trip on an open deck. He returned to the White House later that afternoon, underwent about a 15-minute physical examination from Dr. Travell. All seemed to be going well. But at 1:30 o'clock the next morning. John Kennedy awoke with a sore throat, an aching head, a queasy stomach. The President took his own temperature, then put in a hurried call to Dr. Travell at her Foggy Bottom home...
...than international accord is some new international jokes. But the Ninotchka-era jokes are presented with considerable spirit, and Actors Gavin and Dee, the missile-crossed lovers, are cuddly as puppies. Writer-Director Ustinov gives himself the best lines and delivers them with practiced waggery. When the town-hall clock goes out of order, he laments that "our national tragedy is that we have been occupied by every nation except the Swiss...