Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to re-create a period must be laved in memory and affection, but Flora looks down on rather than at the '30s. The show's parodies of parlor-pink dance epics, and the "knock knock" pun craze are too self-consciously silly to be funny. A tune-drab, dance-starved, lead-witted musical is scarcely the dream debut for a star, but Liza Minnelli puts vocal muscle and wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland...
Nothing Sacred. The big boost for big-beat music has come, amazingly enough, from the adult world. Where knock-the-rock was once the conditioned reflex of the older generation ("Would you want your daughter to marry a Rolling Stone?"), a surprisingly large segment of 20-to-40-year-olds are now facing up to the music and, what is more, liking it. Mostly, the appeal is its relentless beat. It is perhaps the most kinetic sound since the tom-tom or the jungle drum. It may seem monotonous to the musicologist, too loud to the sensitive...
Smart horsemen knew the odds were odd. "Four white feet and white on the nose, knock them in the head and throw them to the crows," goes an old mule traders' saying. Bold Lad was white everywhere. Superstition aside, he had been laid up all winter with painful splints on his shinbones. What's more, he had never won a race longer than a mile- and the Derby is 1¼ mi. Before his horse ever got out of the walking ring, Jockey Hartack had a feeling that he was in trouble. "He wasn't reacting very...
Unfortunately, though, there are enough to keep us from recommending South Pacific to the Camp contingent on the grounds that "it's so bad it's terrific." It's not quite that bad. Most of the time you just sit there praying no one will knock over...
...well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect..." Yet even before he finished this reflection, Bundie felt something slam into him and knock him off his feet. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a small foreign-looking man with dark glasses scramble up from the ground and rush over...