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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This beat-generation soap opera is strung together with a brassy and banal score by Composer Michel Magne, dressed in sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sexe Is a Four-Letter Word | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...counter improves their chances of seeing such S.R.O. hits as My Fair Lady and The Music Man. As vulnerable as any to the gouging charges are Manhattan's 100-odd ticket agencies, which handle roughly 65% of theater seat sales for a legitimate fee of $1.38 above the box-office price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Untender Trap | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...letter from a lady who found a box of letters in the trunk of her husband's car. I pray every night that she will take your advice, because I am that woman. If this woman who found my letters will destroy the letters without telling my husband. I promise never to see her husband again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Run-Around | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Please ask that woman who found the box of love letters in her husband's car how much she will take for them. I am sure this concerns me. WILLING TO BUY Dear Abby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Run-Around | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...front office decided they had something special, and announced that the show would open like a Broadway play-white tie and hard ticket. The public seemed to like the idea. Despite advanced prices ($3 top), more than $40,000 worth of tickets were mail-ordered before the box office opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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