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Word: bins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood's Jack L. Warner caught his act and signed him to a motion picture contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...turn themselves inside out or upside down. They do in this volume of 57 light poems and five airy essays by Felicia Lamport. She briskly suggests that By Love Possessed might well have been written "by Henry James, gulled, cozened." She wonders if spacemen are headed for the "lunar bin." She worries about that poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing." She is a master of the line rhyme, as when she notes primly that "The refined mind/ Will conceal zeal." To get at the diseases of man, she scrubs up, pulls on rubber gloves, and performs delicate logogastrectomies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sophisticated Lady | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

After six months at Northwestern University, Beatty was bored, quit college and went to New York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: The Rise of Geyger Krocp | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

Quite a few customers may want to. The much-whooped ending is mildly exciting, although predictable and straight out of the parts bin. But the body of the film is tedious and unconvincing. Cooper is supposed to be an American businessman in London whose wife (Deborah Kerr) suspects that he is a murderer. It is all very sinister; Coop gives testimony that convicts a business colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coop's Last | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...course papers begin to be late; he is overdrawn at the bank; his room starts to look like a laundry bin; overdue library books pile up in corners; study cards aren't handed in; he has given way to his suicidal urges...

Author: By Allan Kats, | Title: The Academic Suicide: Escape From Freedom | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

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