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Word: booboos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clyde is its sheer, tasteless aimlessness. Director Penn has marshaled an impressive framework of documentation: a flotilla of old cars, a scene played in a movie theater while Gold Diggers of 1933 runs off on the screen, a string of dusty, fly-bitten Southwestern roadhouses and farms. (One booboo: the use of post-1934 dollar bills.) But repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this, if you please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low-Down Hoedown | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

Word of Salinger's booboo reached the President, who summoned his unlucky Pierre to his office for a 45-minute tongue-lashing. When reporters eventually reached White House Chef Pedro Udo, he was true to his vow of silence. In London, Diane Chauvel was philosophical: "These things happen, you know. It's nice to know Mrs. Kennedy thinks so highly of our cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Someone's in the Kitchen | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...Night before at a prededication banquet, Brown had made a major-league booboo by saying smilingly that he looked forward to an all-California World Series between the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Preseason Game | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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