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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first three years I got a job in a local Chinese restaurant where people knew my family, a place where upper middle class people would go to dinner. After I got sick of being around the neigbhorhood I got a job somewhere else where in the daytime they fed people from the local universities and a local medical center and in the evenings there were professional women; that is, prostitutes were my regular customers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The True Story of a Disenchanted But Not Hung-Up Son of Harvard | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...theft occured between 5:30-6:10 p.m., when the occupants of J-13 were at dinner. The door was unlocked while they were away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Seniors Robbed | 3/2/1968 | See Source »

...Academy Award nominations are usually like a children's party: hardly anyone goes home without a gift. This year, favors were distributed liberally to some older participants: Katharine Hepburn (best actress) for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Dame Edith Evans (best actress) for The Whisperers. Younger guests were also smiled upon: Hollywood Newcomers Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross for best actor and supporting actress (The Graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Prizes & Surprises | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...usual, some nominations had nothing to do with quality. Dr. Dolittle, despite its collection of pans, is in the running for the Oscar as the year's best picture; so is the bloated comedy of miscegenation, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Sentiment presumably dictated the unexpected candidacy of Cecil Kellaway for best supporting actor in Dinner, a movie in which that kindly old character actor once again played a kindly old character. Spencer Tracy, also in Dinner, was nominated posthumously for best actor as a farewell gesture; he died less than three weeks after the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Prizes & Surprises | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

More surprising were some omissions. Sidney Poitier was good in Dinner, better in To Sir, with Love, best of all in In the Heat of the Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Prizes & Surprises | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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