Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was when those seeking relief from subtitled and "award-winning" Brattle fare could nip across Massachusetts Avenue and plunk down ninety cents for a relaxing and refreshingly unintellectual Rock Hudson twin-bill...
GARY: If you want to suspend your reason for a couple of hours and have a whale of a time, take in The Guns of Navarone. If you've heard the music, or even read Alastair MacLean's bestseller, by all means go all the way and plunk down your coins to see Carl Foreman's version. Though unbelievable, it's spectacular, and with shipwrecks, cliff-climbers, saboteurs, informers, captures, escapes, and explosions, (and Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn), how can you lose...
...rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom." See THEATER, Unwrapping Mummies...
...bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each other's wrappings with ripples of humor, glints of malice and a passionate alternating current of regard and disregard for their common humanity...
...still left Serge, Igor and Leroy Anderson several long leagues behind the perennial alltime favorite: Ludwig van Beethoven. Music lovers could take some comfort from the fact that last season Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was played just 40.3 times as often as Anderson's Plink Plank Plunk...