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Word: doublesized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"This will be the wide-open Open," announced Billy Talbert, director of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. If he sounded like a carny barker trying to hypo the gate, it was understandable. Partly because of the wearying pro v. amateur power struggle that has long plagued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man Named Smith | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

New-Found Speed. Though Smith has been playing tennis for a decade, he is a relative newcomer to the big-time pro circuit. Gawky as a youngster (at 14, he was once rejected as a ball boy for fear he might trip over his size-13 sneakers and get in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man Named Smith | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

As for Davison and Borgnine, at first it was thought that they would use doubles, but both decided to stay the course themselves. In the scene where the rats attack Borgnine, prop men stood overhead and poured the live furries down on him. One rat, obviously carried away with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Rat Pack | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

suspended entrance staircase, a huge dining hall mural spewing skim milk from trompe I'ocil spouts), all of it was criminated in the budget trimming which also deprived the student rooms of carpeting and closet doors. Noise pollution, too, is a problem: there is no division between bedrooms in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slouching Toward Alphaville | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

This time, the human flesh proves poor bait; Gimbel and his crew ply beneath three oceans without success. But even the failures are captivating. Divers hitch rides on sea turtles; monumental schools of twitching fish gather and separate at every sudden plane of light. The water is like heavy blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloody Acquaintanceship | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

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