Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yippies-1968's version of the hippies-were celebrating spring. Hardly had the equinoctial orgy begun, when it turned as bleak as a midwinter blizzard. A dozen youths scaled the information booth, ripped off the clock hands, scribbled graffiti and defiantly passed around lighted marijuana "joints" in full view of the Tactical Patrol Force. The fuzz charged, billy clubs flailing, and arrested 61 demonstrators. Battered but unbowed, the celebrants coursed off to the Central Park Sheep Meadow...
...describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot the name of the groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse the clock by means of surrealistic exercise machines and lamb-gland injections. But perhaps the most poignant was the closing scene -a tottering music-hall hoofer, reduced to playing a pub, tearfully singing When I Grow Too Old to Dream...
...trouble with Heterosexual is that the play does not rise to its climactic moment but runs down to it like an unwound clock. As comedy, it is fitful; as a social comment, it is fretful, without being particularly penetrating or fresh. Considering how talky the evening is, Burgess Meredith's direction wings it along at a dancing pace with frenetic motion and effervescent, semi-psychedelic lighting. It may be an ironic reflection of the health, resilience and confidence of the U.S. spirit that the play, despite transparent distaste for American capitalism, was supported, promoted, and frequently applauded...
...protest, which involved over two thousand students in a massive Administration building sit-in, ended after three days of round-the-clock negotiations between the protest steering committee and Administration officials. The sit-in was brought to a close when Administration officials granted two of the four steering committee demands and promised "immediate negotiations to resolve other problems...
...earlier hits like Blue Suede Shoes are going for as much as $4 on the second-hand record market. When Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England next month for a tour, they will find that their epoch-making 1950s' recordings of Rock Around the Clock and Shake, Rattle and Roll have been reissued to meet a rising demand. New British groups are being formed with names like Tommy Bishop and the Rock 'n' Roll Revival Show, and trade journals are eagerly asking: Is the old rock coming back...