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Word: bedding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inventor of more than 100 card sleights that have fooled professional gamblers; Martin Gardner, a science writer who can make the language of numbers appear as easy as pi (see box); Robert Hummer, a mathematical genius who would sleep on the floor rather than rearrange the cards on his bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...Graves. The bank put $25,000 into his monthly Black Enterprise magazine four years ago, now values its investment at nearly $500,000. Graves went from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto to win a scholarship at Morgan State, later was an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy's Bed-Stuy redevelopment project. An ex-Green Beret captain and federal narcotics agent, he started Black Enterprise in 1970, turned a profit the first year, now earns more than $2 million in ad revenues. Suave and ambitious, Graves has expanded into book publishing, urban consulting, land development and market research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...film's main characters, played to perfection by Audran and Michel Piccoli, are both middle-aged victims of unrewarding marriages. Picolli acts the part of a subordinate political figure wedded to a bed-ridden woman who is at once depressed and depressing. The sickly woman is self-conscious of the fact that she has made her husband's life dreadfully dull, but she is of neither mind nor body to change the course of things. The husband, were he to remain faithful to the invalid and to convention, would be condemned to the life of a wet-nurse...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: The Morality Play as Thriller | 7/9/1974 | See Source »

...building to the right, with a console-supported bust ornamenting one wall. To the rear stands a gateway and wall. In the center is a rectangular cistern, which, with the dropping from the grid of a canopy or crucifix, can be covered in a trice to become Juliet's bed or Friar Laurence's altar. A few chairs and round tables turn the building into a sidewalk cafe, with an organ-grinder on hand to increase authenticity...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...narrow for a part that is above all else lyrical and musical to an extreme. And sometimes her pace is too leisurely. She does have two fine moments: in her "Come, night" speech, her anticipation of Romeo's arrival erupts into an unabashedly erotic embracing of her bed; and she effectively manages the psychological changes in her phial soliloquy. On the whole, though, this "fair Juliet" is only fair...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

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