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Word: entertainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head scratcher-for itself. It has just enjoyed three fat years, and now, with delight bordering on disbelief, is facing a fourth. Last week, closing their books on 1963 sales and pulling together first reports for 1964, appliance manufacturers reported that sales of machines that cool, clean, cook and entertain rose 7% last year, to $9 billion, and last month ran 10% ahead of the previous January. Demand seems to be increasing faster than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchandising: Two in Every Home | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...normal hazards faced by foreign correspondents these days range from being shot at in a helicopter over South Vietnam to the gastric despair caused by the need to entertain news sources in distinguished Paris restaurants. But among the most serious problems are the obstacles put in the reporter's path by newly independent and highly sensitive nations that talk much about freedom without necessarily practicing it. Two of our correspondents have once again experienced this in reporting the current wave of unrest in Africa (see THE WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...perplexing maze of 20 municipal bond issues in a 1962 election, most voters clipped a Sun editorial, took it to the polls, and followed the paper's recommendations to the letter. The Sun demands a high order of intelligence from its readers. Stories are written not to entertain but to inform; text is never displaced for purely cosmetic considerations-by a picture, say, to break up a formidable-looking front page. If Baltimoreans do not know what is going on everywhere, their ignorance is not the Sun's fault. It staffs bureaus all over the world, keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Top U.S. Dailies | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...wrong with all Clan pictures: the attitude of the people on the screen. They constitute an ingroup, and they seem bored with the outside world. Sometimes, perish the thought, they even seem bored with each other. They scratch, they mumble, they hack around. They appear less concerned to entertain the public than to indulge their private fantasies. Maybe they ought to call their next picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two from Martin | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Maclean's voice has intensity, but his bland, uniform and almost constant intensity fails to convince or even, after a while, to entertain. All three of these actors often speak too rapidly. They lose good lines and make many passages difficult to understand...

Author: By Daniel J. Chasan, | Title: Ibsen | 11/23/1963 | See Source »

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