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Word: cinemactor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...painful, that editors rewrote his copy into Time-speak, with its backward-running sentences, space-saving but eye-irritating ampersands ("now & then"), capitalized job designations and film references shoved in as nicknames - "Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan" - often with the job title crushed into a compound cuteism ("Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa," "Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck"). I assumed that, when Manny left the place, he felt well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...place. It was that he married political friends with religious enemies in pursuit of a common goal. Falwell, who died May 15, didn't care that Jimmy Carter was a Bible-believing Baptist if he still had the soul of a Democrat or that Ronald Reagan was a divorced cinemactor, as long as he was a kindred political spirit. At a time when you couldn't always get two Baptists of different stripes to work together on a bake sale, Falwell founded the Moral Majority on the argument that fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Jews, conservative Roman Catholics and Mormons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry's Kids | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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