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Word: busters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow never puts them in motion. As they meander through Oxford together, their languid adventures seem more pathetic than comic-for the good reason that they belong to a world that disappeared just about the time Evelyn was writing its obituary. It is a little like seeing Buster Keaton hurl a custard pie into empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jul. 24, 1964 | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...Trouble. His round of press conferences over, Lodge and his wife Emily headed for a long weekend at their home in Beverly, Mass., with their two sons and ten grandchildren. With them went two Tibetan pups named Buster Brown and Rover Boy, gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Homecoming | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...ideal companions in such uncertain spots as Saigon. The intelligent, sharp-eared dogs were bred in the lamaseries around the sacred city of Lhasa, teamed with the fierce Tibetan mastiff as watch dogs. The mastiffs were chained outside while the small dogs were indoor sentinels. Only trouble is, neither Buster Brown nor Rover Boy is housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Homecoming | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free-for-all with renegades who are trying to highjack a shipment of Union gold. Bringing the Civil War era to life in Mack Sennett style calls for a tricky blend of taste and ingenuity that few have tried since Buster Keaton's The General, a silent classic of 1926. In Rear, a whole platoon of actors work up a sweat doing the funny business that one real comedian might have tripped through with ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Union Blue Comedy | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Perhaps the best of old film clips are slapstick silents. This sample, "The Funny Men, Part I," features Chaplin, Harold Lloyd. Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin and W. C." Fields. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 19, 1964 | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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