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Word: dungeon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTOR. Director William Wyler's grisly, gripping thriller adapted from the bestseller by John Fowles-about a lunatic butterfly fancier (Terence Stamp) who collects a lovely, live girl (Samantha Eggar) and locks her in a dungeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 16, 1965 | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...piece set of armorer's tools, some dating to the 16th century, including yard-long shears. In the penthouse studio, the restorers ("Most important men here," says Rorimer) contemplate a Renaissance Piero di Cosimo for months before attempting to remedy a millimeter's flaking. In the dungeon basements, a crusty bronze Vishnu lies in a vat of alkali soaking nearly a year until cleanliness restores it to godliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: The Muses' Marble Acres | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...rather, killings. In a world without television, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks supplied nightmare fodder to generations of Londoners, with its penumbral acres of dismemberments, garrotings, stabbings, shootings and dungeon doings. After visiting Mme. Tussaud's while on European assignment as a U.S. information officer, Dennis decided that a less gory and more educational waxworks might well be popular with tourists in the nation's capital. He was so right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Plastic | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...questioning over, Joan returns to her cell. A dungeon door groans shut. Englishmen's voices cry, "Death to the witch!" Alone, the girl lies motionless, staring; somewhere in the night a barking dog echoes her isolation. Then the interrogation resumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Stake in History | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Thursday, October 22 THE MUNSTERS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Gas-company workers stumble into the Munster dungeon while installing a pipeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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