Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game against California had taken place in 1965, and Boston was already assured of ninth place, what would Mike Andrews have done? He would have tried to knock the ball over the fence, heeding the maxim that home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Chevrolets...
...tough old sidekick (Robert Mitchum), he and his horse head for the hills, and for a series of picaresque encounters with some memorable bit players, including a snake-eyed reptile of a gunslinger (Edward Asner) and a garrulous old Injun fighter (Arthur Hunnicutt). The cattleman hires the gunman to knock off Mitchum, and Wayne comes roaring back to town to help the good guys. From then on, the film becomes one gun ploy after another as the stars combine to free the town of varmints...
Bastille Day was last week and in tardy celebration the Loeb has set off a forty-four year old Romains candle, which not surprisingly fizzled. Dr. Knock, by French playwright Jules Romains, has reached the compulsory retirement...
...begins to implement his own theory of medicine. Healthy people are sick people who don't know it. One patient after another marches into his office, and with about as much trouble as it takes to persuade an arsonist to set a fire, Dr. Knock convinces each one that he is a near-invalid. Within weeks, the doctor has half the town in bed and a fortune in fees...
...minor classic in France. On the theory that misery loves company, it is easy to see how French audiences might take the play to their hearts, not to mention their livers. A nation of hypochrondiacs might well find it plausible and even grimly amusing to watch Dr. Knock make the well ill. But Boston's large English-speaking sector will no doubt find it a silly bore...