Word: tock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
Anderson's music has infiltrated the public ear most persuasively through television's Late Show, its theme music is from a mesmeric Anderson work known as Syncopated Clock ("Everybody does tick-tock pieces, but nobody ever gave them a syncopated twist before"). Anderson, 53, writes what he calls "concert music with a pop quality"-compositions that rely heavily on acoustical effects and rarely run longer than three minutes. Most popular Anderson concert piece last season was Sleigh Ride, a jog-trotting exercise complete with sleigh bells (jingled by a percussionist) the crack of a whip (two hinged pieces...
With the Porter company as a base, Evans set out to acquire others, showed himself a clever and cool reorganizer of corporations. His method is simple: he looks for faltering companies that have potential earning power and whose s tock is selling for less than the company's book value. He also likes to find a company with cash in the till to help pay the purchase cost. Evans never merges his company with others through stock swaps, instead buys the other company's stock and retires it, thus increasing the value of the purchasing company...