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Word: bedizened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spice and spite in Somerset Maugham's classic autobiographical novel of the torments of young manhood. Bette Davis flashed on-screen as the first movie Mildred, in 1934. Eleanor Parker entered a low bid in 1946. Now, all Mildred's beads, feather boas, and skin-tight finery bedizen the substantial person of Kim Novak. Though the film will give ordinary moviegoers little pleasure, it may well set Bette Davis to snapping her garters in glee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back in Bondage | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...anymore. Scoring the TKO it has threatened ever since it started investigating the rank finances of February's fight, the World Boxing Association stripped Cassius of his title when he signed in Boston for a Nov. 16 rematch with Sonny Listen. Unfazed, the Lip zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings like a bee. Gazing at the solid silver waistband Charley Mitchell won for going a bare-knuckle 39 rounds against John L. Sullivan in 1888, Muhammad AH bumbled: "They got cheap with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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