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Word: dolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While it is the usual practice for publicity men to emphasize sex in every film they promote, they did us a real disservice with Baby Doll, for their work was largely responsible for starting a controversy that only obscured the quality of the film. Baby Doll is neither as good nor as bad as various partisans have argued, and certainly not as dirty...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabcher, | Title: Baby Doll | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...memeriam (Last Cent, Mama's Mink, Overtime), music (Rock 'n' Roll, Intermezzo), the sea (Blue Water, Sea Legs); little boats get little names (Yap Yap, Pixie); big ones get big names (Delphine, Trident, Chanticleer); and many are just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than 35,000). Their women wear cute nautical jewelry: port (red) and starboard (green) earrings, charm bracelets that spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boat Fever | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Some Like It Hot. Humor triumphs over vulgarity in this uproarious farce starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a couple of guys dressed up as dolls, and Marilyn Monroe as a doll who needs no dressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Some Like It Hot. Humor triumphs over vulgarity in this uproarious farce starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a couple of guys dressed up as dolls and Marilyn Monroe as a doll who needs no dressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...College Education. Each day grief-stricken Little Doll placed fresh flowers on Big Pasquale's grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: La Legge d'Onore | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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