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Word: bowsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As every woman knows, Prankster Cocteau was defining fashion, not the Suez crisis. Last week, along the Right Bank from the Place Vendome to the little streets south of the Arc de Triomphe, fashion's fever reached its infectious peak in the high-fashion capital of the world. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Undressed Look | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Delicate Balance. Hickling writes of the sea and his ungainly craft with the accuracy of a seaman, the eye of a poet, and a prose that suggests he profitably studied Conrad. His descriptions transform the experiences of the sea from something noted into something experienced; though they sometimes teeter on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Beach | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Margaret Gibbs is a classic example of the Puritan limner's art. Typically, seven-year-old Margaret meets the eye not like a real girl in a real world but like a dream of one. Her body looks no thicker than a dress on a clothes hanger. The ringleted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PIONEER PAINTERS | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Spelunkers, outfitted with mountaineering and diving equipment, delving ever deeper into the earth (unofficial world-record descent: a depth of 3,232 ft. into France's Gouffre Berger cave near Grenoble), are pushing back the last frontier. But fast as they push, the awesome unknown seems to recede before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure into Darkness | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

In moving from the stage to TV, Borge's show suffered a loss of the intimacy that the unmelancholy Dane's comic style demands. The hilarious mood of Comedy in Music was also seriously damaged by an overlong potpourri of Tchaikovsky melodies, played by a full orchestra and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Show | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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