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Word: dumbness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fretful interruptions, emendations, and eruptive self-concerns of the asylum's inmates form a play within the play within the play. An asthenic-looking fop, playing an innocent love scene with Charlotte Corday, promptly tries to rape her. In dumb show, a single tipsy file of the insane marches to the guillotine, and their heads drop in deadly percussive succession. Stripped to the waist and kneeling, Sade is lashed by Corday with a spastic whipping motion of her hair that raises imaginative welts of erotic cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood Bath | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...ended the conversation with the traditional "Why don't you call me? I'm at --." I did, told her we would like to do a story on her show. So there I was, sipping champagne out of a paper cup, notebook in hand, camera hanging, feeling like a dumb college...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: Memoirs of A Stage Door Johnny | 12/14/1965 | See Source »

Snoopy, who upstages the rest of the company every time he is onscreen, wins first prize with his doghouse deco rations. Nice Guy Charlie Brown natu rally finishes last- he can't even find a decent Christmas tree. "You've been dumb before, Charlie Brown," snorts Lucy, "but this time you really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Security Is a Good Show | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

What Calvin inveighed against, Terbrugghen painted with brush in cheek. The typical Caravaggioesque huddling of figures unified by a single artificial light source lacks Caravaggio's brooding shadows, instead glows with an incandescent warmth. In the dumb show, hands are more expressive than faces. Terbrugghen was making morality playlets, but his sympathy seems to lie on the side of the sinners and the senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Merry Mimes | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

After last Saturday, anyone who could maintain that sort of blissful confidence would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Softies Turn Tough; Harvard's Future Dims | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

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