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Word: denim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue Denim (by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble) embeds a troubled teen-age sex drama inside a sociological roundwork. The going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Slew Play in Manhattan | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...Blue Denim is twin-burner drama: Arthur's relations to his girl provide the plot; his relations to his family, the basic problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Slew Play in Manhattan | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...striped denim uniform of a subway trainman appeared in the Mayor's office of the City of New York early last Tuesday morning, before the regular business hours. Theodore Loos, president of the Motorman's Benevolent Association, announced that the men on the IND were going to stage a wildcat strike at 5 a.m. the next morning...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

...wore black denim trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Wild Ones | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...force from two officers to eight after warnings that motorcycle hoodlums sometimes dog the A.M.A. riders, sometimes get violent. (Ten years ago they almost wrecked nearby Hollister, Calif, during a three-day beer and battle orgy.) One day last week, as predicted, almost a thousand of the black-denim trouser set trailed 3,000 A.M.A. riders into Angels Camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Wild Ones | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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