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Word: confectioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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At first, the book seems to be an agreeable juvenile confection. The plot is almost conventionally simple and contemporary. A 23-year-old graduate student named Chris marries a 21-year-old coed-dropout named Ellen, with whom he has slept on and off for three years. The tone inclines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Canker in the Rose | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Though disappointing, Anti-Memoirs is a remarkable cultural confection, especially for readers armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vishnu and Vichy Water | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Bubble-gum music is the latest confection created for the subteen market, which accounts for about one out of every four single records sold. These customers, who range from high school freshmen all the way down to third-graders, are the displaced persons of the rock revolution. Today's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop: Tunes for Teeny-Weenies | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

THE QUEENS. A four-part Italian confection made mainly of sex and well glazed with the talents of Monica Vitti, Claudia Cardinale and Capucine.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Stern Stereotype. The saps are in full flood among the situation comedies too. Most cynical confection of the season is The Flying Nun (ABC), a mating of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Specials or Nothing | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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