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Wednesday's woman is really Wednesday's child. She is a kept waif, chug-a-lugging champagne from the bottle like Coke, sticking out her tongue as if hunting a refractory driblet of ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sandy Is Dandy | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...plot deals with the dastardly career of Sweeney Todd, whose crimes are committed in a new and grisly way. The victim is seated in Sweeney's barber chair, a lever is pulled, and chug, chug, chug--the infernal contraption hauls the fellow off to be chopped up for the filling of veal pies. Sweeney's activities affect a wide circle of people including a hypocritical parson, an asylum warden, a judge, various military gentlemen, a tubercular heroine, and other hangers...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: Sweeney Todd | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...smart-sounding place name is still a big favorite: Monterey, Biscayne, Park Lane. Pontiac will add the GTO-borrowed from Ferrari's GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato)-to a racing stable that at present includes the Bonneville, Grand Prix and Le Mans. American Motors' Rambler continues to chug along with its American, Classic and Ambassador models tagged according to price and polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: F.O.B. Nameville | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...scuba diver's spear stuck in him. "Get me a knife and the iodine," said Mom. Before long Flipper was cavorting, grinning, dancing on his tail, laughing a porpoise laugh that sounded something like a very old automobile starting on a very cold day-ugga-ugga-ugga-ugga, chug-chug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lassie with Fins | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Hueys' effectiveness is mainly the result of their ability to chug right along in the same formation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Makeshift Killers | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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