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...basic question is not the trite old "Who Killed Cock Robin?" but the more modern "Am I the Sparrow?" The hero (Ralph Richardson) is a white-collar Briton who comes chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...
...idea of moving decorations is ancient, e.g., fluttering Chinese toys and streamers, the revolving cock or horse on weathervanes. But Calder pioneered the use of motion in a pure art form. The name "mobile" was first applied to his work in 1932 by French Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp...
...shotgun for a present and went hunting out of season. Result: "A bag of three cock pheasants which caused consternation because father was a game warden." Other early indiscretions, McCulloch reports, helped influence his present appearance. Among his friends were a tribe of Paiute Indians on a reservation nearby. When he was disobedient, he was punished by Chief Harry Winnemucca, whose method of discipline was to pick up the offender by the ears. "As a result of this treatment," says McCulloch, "both ears now have a tendency to flap...
Christianity has a long prison record. Ever since the days of the Apostle Paul, Christians have been familiar with the barred window and the dungeon cell. And ever since the first Good Friday when the cock crew and Peter wept, Christians have died rather than deny their faith and save their skins. This is the strict code of the Christian prisoner, but what of the compromises in between? Last week one missionary publicly castigated another for keeping his religion but buying his freedom with falsehoods...
...orders, as recorded by Robert Graves in Sergeant Lamb's America: "March with your rest in your hand! March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your...