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Word: biz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each Sunday night from 7:30 on, in the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, the TV screen is an electronic Valhalla in which Ben Cartwright grapples with the Smothers brothers, Walt Disney with Perry Mason. For millions of viewers, the keenest new prime-time contender is a show-biz nonentity. Nevertheless, as star of the Sam Yorty Show, the mayor of Los Angeles, at 5 ft. 9 in., is a jolly big giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Sam's Show | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...with a bang and a whimper. Deciding that it was time "for a man to make a public happening of a catastrophe in his life," Funt appeared on a late-hour Manhattan radio show to detail the in glorious mistreatment he had met at the hands of show biz in general and CBS in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Smile! | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...Elia Kazan, whose America America was a moving and perceptive first novel, come to manufacture this muddled, massive mistake? Perhaps the answer lies in Kazan's past as an Academy Award-winning film maker. His publishers tried to make the most of it by throwing a splashy show-biz-style, pre-publication party aboard the liner France in New York Harbor, drawing everybody from Tennessee Williams to Andy Warhol; on paper, Kazan tries to make the most of it with splashy writing: dream sequences, yellowed letters, soliloquies to mirrors, toys-in-the-attic flashbacks, instant psychoanalysis, prose more often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Family | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Living Curl. Yet few would rule out a rapprochement. In the Senate, after all, Dirksen is the acknowledged master of compromise. And it would not be the first time that the Senator has withdrawn from show biz. He made his first farewell bow to the boards some 40 years ago in Pekin, Ill., after he had starred in and married the leading lady of a local theatrical. In Pekin, he also co-authored and directed a two-act comedy called Chinese Love, which tells of Sing Loo's pursuit of the blossom of his eye, Pan Toy. Sample dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Sing Loo, Sweet Senator | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...could get the tapes from Bobby Kennedy. Lurleen Wallace could do Lurleen Plays Music to Segregate By, with Husband George conducting the Alabama State Police Symphony Orchestra. And Ronald Reagan might try Ronnie Reagan Swings at Berkeley. At any rate, as Dirksen himself has noted, the path from show biz to politics is no longer a one-way street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Sing Loo, Sweet Senator | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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