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...years made excellent pianos for both the concert stage and home. But although used by many orchestras and some solo ists, the Baldwin has never been the first choice of most top concert pianists, who complain that its sound, instead of ringing out, dies away with a metallic clunk and bogs down their tonal flights...
...side. A large group of Negroes clustered in terror alongside the brick school building; with measured malevolence, three troopers lobbed three canisters of gas in their midst. At one point, an eerie silence enveloped the field, punctuated only by what sounded like men kicking footballs; it was the hollow clunk of cops kicking and clubbing fallen marchers. A white woman, her blue dress streaked with mud and grass stains, stumbled over to a platoon of blue-shirted city cops. "How could you be so cruel?" she sobbed. "Don't you know I'm a human being?" "Lady," snickered...
...call for help when accidentally locked in a public bathroom. The Playboy asks the Law student, "Why not throw yourself into life," and the Law Student cleverly counters, "I worry where I'm going to fall." The Playboy mutters to us all, "You're right, I'm the fool." Clunk...
...sound is musical Braille to Kirk. "The buzz of a doorbell is a note," he says; "the clunk of an ash tray on a table, that's percussion. I was riding in a taxi and the driver blew his horn. 'Man, you just made some music,' I told him." Whatever the taxi driver thought, Roland Kirk had found another lost chord...
...airports, how far they walk, their interchange problems." The results of his findings were dramatized by longtime Saarinen Friend Charles Eames-for the benefit of the FAA and airline officials who needed convincing about mobile lounges-in a ten-minute cartoon film whose sound track featured the tramp-tramp, clunk-clunk of aching feet plodding through the measureless tunnels of the nation's sprawling airports...