Word: tom-tom
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There is nothing "modern" about his house, at least in the stiff, sterile, museum sense. It look's like the home of a traveling tinker, cluttered with gadgets, junk and such craft objects as an old cradle scythe, an Algerian blanket, a tom-tom, a coffee table made from a square sheet of aluminum, calabash rattles and rattles made of beer cans filled with pebbles. Somehow, Calder's wife Louisa keeps the place livable, and their two children play happily among the mobiles...
This muscular young miss grimaces and screams; indeed, it is a tribute to Astaire's sure and quick footing that she does not step on his toes. She is as out of place as would be a haggard Navaho dancing tom-tom circles in the Easter Parade. If one could only blot out her image, the film would be vastly improved, as it is during three brief dance sequences when Astaire is alone and unmolested...
...romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...
...springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague eye, the trick shot of all outdoors whirling round & round, the heart beating an audible tom-tom, the psychiatrist with his smooth sofa-side manner...
Noisiest U.S. fish are the croakers, which cruise in racketing schools. They have special muscles to make their swim-bladders resonate. The hogfish grinds its teeth. The spot gives a raucous honk. The sea-catfish makes a noise like a tom-tom. The searobin cackles, while the toadfish toots a musical warning to leave its eggs alone...