Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taxi ("Parp parp! Parp parp!"), when all of a sudden the Red Goblins appear. They tip over lamp posts, steal the keys that wind up the clockwork clowns, let all the animals out of Noah's ark. And who gets blamed for all the mischief? Little "Niddy Niddy Nod" Noddy, of course...
Will Noddy ever achieve the stature of an Alice or a Peter Pan? Most adults are apt to niddy nod at the idea. But anyhow, he will obviously be around for a while. Enid Blyton has just had her ninth Noddy novel published, and from her tidy house with its black cocker spaniel sitting at the gate, there is no telling how many more words will come. "Once I get started," says she blithely, "I've just got to go on and on. Oh, I love...
...CONCRETE MUSIC, a recent development involving recorded natural sounds that are edited and (usually) electronically transformed into (usually) hair-raising compositions, gets a stiff nod. Grove's admits that it "does represent a new means of expression." ¶ The diminished seventh, a foreboding chord much abused by 19th century composers and some 20th century organists, gets its comeuppance. Because it has four notes belonging to widely distant keys, Editor Blom recalls a reference to it as a railway station, from which it is "possible to get to any destination in the shortest possible time . . ." He adds, "It became stale...
...best acting job of his career, as a true-to-life patsy in On the Waterfront, Brando got the nod from the New York Film Critics, Film Daily and the Hollywood stars themselves, who were polled by the United Press. Newcomer Grace Kelly, who smoothly dressed up Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and Green Fire (see below} with what Director Alfred Hitchcock has called her "sexual elegance," but who performed most stunningly in her biggest acting part as the embittered wife in The Country Girl, won hands up with the New York Film Critics, and the National Board...
Once upon an unsophisticated time, a playwright could draw laughs from an audience by just a nod towards Sex. But then pristine T.V. came along. The movies, sensing competition, announced that they had grown up and had learned that children do not grow on trees. Everyone hailed this as a sign of maturity, except of course the playwrights, who felt that they might be losing some of their audience if Screen sex became as naughty as Stage sex. So they decided to make their scripts really disgusting. Boston has already seen one of these New Look comedies this season--Black...