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Word: colorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell you, that wasn't no chocolate bunny!" Patty, Kenny's wife, couldn't picture it. "Aww, he wudn't do that!" she said. Rick's little boy cruised around with a football helmet, riding his trike. People wafted in. One of the principals was showing around color snapshots of his marijuana farm out in the woods. The plants looked to be five or six feet high. There was what later looked like a laundry bag full of grass from the farm somewhere around. Three or four joints were always circling among fifteen people, so one passed every five seconds...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...contents of after-hour songs, banquets and parties that extend through the night and color the next day's play defy description and libel laws. And decency...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: View From the Attic | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...safe to say you can color the weekend spectacular of the Noble Savage brown. Brown for turf, hops, scatology and other dominating themes. But brown mainly for the victor: Brown...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: View From the Attic | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...jumped at the offer as something new and exciting," he said in a break between the fights that document the story of a black South African's escape from jail. About the plot, he is enthusiastic: "I'm glad it shows so starkly the evils of the color bar." As for his own role: "It's much harder than being a king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1974 | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...display their talents, she spent $5 million to transform an abandoned movie palace into the first U.S. theater designed specifically for dance. What was once the grubby RKO Colonial is now an intimate, lavishly appointed house with a decor of powder blue (Mrs. Harkness's favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: An Expense of Sprirt | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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