Word: knock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing so high they were reportedly considered as extras in Star Wars II, now look much more reminiscent of The Bad News Bears--that monstrous 10-game division lead has shrunk to a mere five (pending the results of tonight's quasi-double-header in New York, which could knock it down to three-and-a-half), and the whole team has been hitting pretty much like Tatum O'Neal. And the club certainly didn't help the cause by signing on starter Andy Hassler, the not-so-proud owner of the A.L. for consecutive losses for a pitcher...
...attention to the smallest details, Heitz advises. He prowls his winery like a top sergeant making a bed check, looking, listening, sniffing. "You can sense if something is wrong," he testifies. "Do you hear a knock or a rattle? Maybe an air conditioner has to be fixed. You need good ears." And, he continues, "people say that the machinery is automatic. Nothing is automatic...
...begins: people display an incredible array of items pulled from closets, attics, gardens, in-laws and, only occasionally, outlaws. With an eye for hot merchandise, police sometimes patrol the bigger markets, but the difficulty of making positive identifications means that there is often little they can do to knock down any fences...
...Mechanical Reproduction." In it Benjamin related the development of 20th century mass movements and the mechanical means of mass art. Consider his observations on the film actor as a manipulated prop: "Let us assume," he wrote, "that an actor is supposed to be startled by a knock at the door. If his reaction is not satisfactory, the director can resort to an expedient: when the actor happens to be at the studio again he has a shot fired behind him without his being forewarned of it. The frightened reaction can be shot now and cut into the screen version. Nothing...
...slaves have to rise up and cast off their oppressors." In fact, when asked a question Jackson nearly always responds with a well-rehearsed slogan or a ministerial platitude. Debate with him is difficult. Says Alice Blair, superintendent of Chicago's District 13: "You can't knock gimmickry because it does work with kids. But you can't do anything without good principals who are motivated to change things...