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Word: darken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designers on the Lower East Side or secretaries who flaunt the company's dress code. There is a real effort being made throughout Rags's pages to return to a simple era; and despite all those nasty advertisers, by the very nature of its subject, fewer corporate shadows darken Rags than they do Rolling Stone...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Counter-Culteha Consciousness I in Bellbottoms | 4/13/1971 | See Source »

...lovers playing for time-and losing. He keeps dicing away his savings; Mr. Right fails to come to her rescue on schedule. While they run in place, Gilroy furnishes them with crapped-out dialogue: "I've met some nuts in my time, but you take the cake," "Never darken my door again unless it's for keeps," and "Which is worse, the heart abused or the heart unused?" For those who cannot answer that question, the film provides a clue: when the boy friend finally arrives with a divorce decree, ten-carat ring and oleaginous smirk, Fran decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tempting Trap | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...last," says Martini. Hirsutologists also suspected Lyndon Johnson, whose hair appeared to gray noticeably after he left office. Again Martini says no. Toward the end of his tenure, says the barber, L.B.J. was finally persuaded to give up not dye, but the "greasy kid stuff" that seemed to darken his hair. After all, what President would not want a little statesmanlike gray at the temples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Does He or Doesn't He? | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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