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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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A settlement called No Name City sprouts at the peak of the Gold Rush. Population: male. In No Name dwell a miner, forty-niner (Lee Marvin), and his partner (Clint Eastwood). In time -great gaping wastes of it-along comes a blonde named Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). There isn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Fool's Gold | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Heron of Foix (Assaf Dayan) is not wise in the ways of the world, but he is eager. He is young, and he has a great longing to behold the sea. He is expelled from the university and goes in search of the ocean and experience that will make him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ye Olde Lonesome Road | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

John Huston, one formerly to whom much honor was due, filmed this woeful tale and even subjected his own daughter to it. Dale Wasserman set it down in words taken by Hans Koningsberger from his own novel, perhaps with a broadsword. Moshe Dayan's son traveled all the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ye Olde Lonesome Road | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

'ENCYCLOPEDIA by Richard Horn. 157 pages. Grove Press. $4.95. The hapless love affair of hopeful Poet Tom (Americana) Jones and wealthy, bohemia-bound Sadie (Britannica) Massey is cross-referenced in brief, satirical, encyclopedic passages from ABORTION to zoo CAFETERIA. What you can't look up, you can'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

SYNDICATE ABROAD by Hank Messick. 246 pages. Macmillan. $5.95. This nononsense, all-business book, the fourth Messick "Syndicate" title in three years, bears down on the Bahamas, wonder drug for February sufferers and haven for the U.S. gamblers and tax-afflicted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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