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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control. The cast still remembers with amazement the night at Manhattan's Playhouse theater when a cable snapped with a loud crack high over the stage. Anne and the spaniel that plays the Keller family dog jumped a foot. Patty Duke, as the deaf Helen Keller, did not even start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...knowledge of rigging. Nevertheless, in an angry letter of resignation last week, Cowan accused his boss, CBS Inc.'s President Frank Stanton, of trying to force him out. Wrote Cowan: "You do not want a man who has had an association with quiz shows, even though his association was honest and honorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Quizzard's Exit | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Code. In Kaingaroa, New Zealand, the Kaingaroa Forest News concludes each issue: "Opinions expressed in this periodical are not necessarily condoned or even understood by the editorial staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...motion picture that permits the audience not only to see and hear but also to smell what is happening on the screen. The process is called AromaRama* ("You must breathe it to believe it"), and it could be guaranteed, on the basis of its first showing, to turn even a good movie into something of a stinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sock in the Nose | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Unhappily, the system sounds better than it smells. To begin with, most of the production's 31 odors will probably seem phony, even to the average uneducated nose. A beautiful old pine grove in Peking, for instance, smells rather like a subway rest room on disinfectant day. Besides, the odors are strong enough to give a bloodhound a headache. What is more, the smells are not always removed as rapidly as the scene requires: at one point the audience distinctly smells grass in the middle of the Gobi Desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sock in the Nose | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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