Word: knocks
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...stark and dreary (the first line on the album is "I'm walking through streets that are dead"), the lyrics on Love and Theft are vibrant and visionary, loose-limbed and jokey. On Cry a While, Dylan actually uses the phrase "booty call"; on Po' Boy, he tells a knock-knock joke. On Mississippi, he summons up his old outsider spirit, singing, "I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town/I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down." But on Summer Days, he acknowledges that things have changed for the old rebel icon: "Well...
...They created suspense through sound effects; aurally, this was radio?s most sophisticated show. In "Treasure Island," the second show in the series, a blind pirate approaches Jim Hawkins? inn, and for more than a minute we hear nothing but menacing footfalls, a fierce knock on the door, a rat-tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet...
...want to shell out for the latest 10,000-googlehertz monster, why not invest in a new keyboard instead? Logitech's new Cordless Freedom Optical ($100, mouse included) is the ultimate in typing comfort. Its sleek design tilts the keys at an optimal angle, there's no cord to knock over your coffee cup, and it's loaded with shortcut keys and a scroll bar for efficient Web surfing...
...asked to see Kennedy and talk about Berlin and was surprised when he agreed. I found him cool and cautious, but also patient, a trait we would see more of as he journeyed through the Cold War. "We could have sent tanks over and knocked the wall down," he said. "What then? They build another one back a hundred yards. We knock that down and then we go to war." He speculated that the wall would stay until the Soviet Empire tired of it. Some experts predicted it would stand 50 years or more...
...presidential election spawned some spontaneous stars, new blips on the national radar. Nine months (a whole gestation period!) after the Sunshine State's knock-down-drag-out over votes, Notebook decided to check up on them...