Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existence better than any of the other Arabs, and he knows that the failure of his fellow Arabs to recognize it can only mean continued strife for the entire Middle East. The Arabs are already beginning to squabble among themselves again, and some heads are bound to roll when the first shock of defeat wears off. "If the situation persists," warned Hussein last week, "there is a grave danger that war will occur again." That danger was illustrated dramatically by last week's Arab-Israeli clash at Suez, which quickly escalated from sporadic firing to aerial dogfights and full...
...employing a good deal of low-level speech such as the ancient tragedians avoided, and by specifying the use of modern dress in performance. The current Stratford production is as up-to-date as today's newspapers. It is framed by the on-stage playing of a rock 'n' roll combo, with a bunch of teenagers frugging away (including Antigone's sister Ismene, in a yellow and black miniskirt). The Greek chorus has been reduced to a single commentator by Anouilh (as Shakespeare had done with the Chorus in Henry V); but here he is, as cleanly and expertly played...
What is sparking the switch to electricity is of course the success of the amplified guitar in the rock-'n'-roll sound. By gimmicking other instruments, manufacturers hope to tune in on the bustling sales that guitars have enjoyed in recent years. In addition, amplified wind instruments, with their ability to project normally dulcet tones and make small ensembles sound larger, may also find markets in the jazz, dance and school-band fields...
...clean little family who have just arrived in the lower middle class and who are always irritating the Sawneys. The bobbies are always poking around, and the building inspector keeps checking up on the march of decay that is sweeping over the Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State have crushed the dirty, free, vicious vagrants...
...Places everybody, roll 'em." And there came Actor James Coburn, 39, barreling out of the Café Wha' in New York's Greenwich Village with a Russian agent and a CIA man in zealous pursuit, just as it said in the script of a movie called The President's Analyst. There too, but not in the script, stood Patrolman Melvin Schwartz, an honest-to-goodness member of the New York City Police Department, who had not been informed that they were making a flick on his beat. Patrolman Schwartz's eyes narrowed as he beheld...