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Word: entertainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group has also had problems in providing popular entertainers. Ken Tigar, member of "The Proposition," will perform his "Nixon Acceptance Speech" skit. Tom Lehrer and Peter, Paul, and Mary, due to prior commitments, will not appear, Miller said. Members of the group had said they expected they would entertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace Rally Ticket Sales Fail to Reach Stated Goal | 10/21/1968 | See Source »

...Jean Simmons' and Dick Brooks', or over to Lucy's or Dean's house to watch a movie." Otherwise, he divides his time between golf and "lady people." His handicap in the former is twelve; he scores high, too, with the latter. He prefers to entertain girl friends at his place, spurns all invitations to meet a lady person on her home grounds. "I mean, who needs it-the apartment with the bullfighter posters, and the door made into a coffee table, and the old Kelvinator with the ice trays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...number John asked the audience to clap their hands in time. Nodding toward the royal box he added: 'Those upstairs just rattle your jewelry.'" They think we're here to entertain them. Well we are, but fuck them anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beatles | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

tour, she deigned to put in a personal appearance at only one department store. The same store was one of the first in the U.S. to introduce men's Carnaby Street fashions. It has also brought in Simon & Garfunkel, Dionne Warwick, and Spanky and Our Gang to entertain shoppers. Among art fanciers, it is known and respected for its Gallery 12, which sells Tom Wesselmann nudes as well as $8,000 Marisol wood sculptures. The store is Dayton's of Minneapolis, which has exhibited a flair for showmanship that has been emulated by some of the biggest names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Swinging Dayton's | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...Pompidous entertain frequently, both at large receptions at the Matignon and at dinner parties for twelve in their apartment, where Pompidou holds forth on everything from his favorite nouvelle vague film director (Jean-Luc Godard) to his favorite poet (Baudelaire, whose work he never reads "without emotion"). In fact, Pompidou ranks somewhere among the literati himself, having begun work on two novels ("It would be entertaining to be a writer") and edited a widely used anthology of French poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: POMPIDOU & CIRCUMSTANCE | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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