Word: ticktack
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...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...
Derby-goers missed Epsom's flower-decked grandstands, the grey-toppered swells, fortunetelling gypsies and wigwagging ticktack men (scouts for bookies). But nothing was missing in the race itself. Favorite in the field of 21 three-year-olds was the Duke of Westminster's Lambert Simnel, winner of last spring's Two Thousand Guineas. Sentimental favorite was Fairy Prince, owned by Lieut. F. T. Williams, a war prisoner somewhere in Germany...