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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first copies came, she went through them page by page with her students. Soon the students began to argue-so vigorously that Mrs. Levine asked them to push their chairs into a huge circle against the wall (see cut) so that the debaters could look one another in the eye while voicing their opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...play all the notes, but we would rather listen to the music of Mendelssohn." The young man on the podium flushed, resumed at a slower tempo. Hour after hour, it went on that way last week while 19 fledgling baton wavers flailed away under Steinberg's watchful eye through Liverpool's international competition for conductors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Are You a Windmill? | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Painters have ransacked the heavens and earth for inspiration, recorded the sea in all its moods, discovered the bird's-eye view centuries before the airplane. Only recently has the artist begun trying to conquer a new world-the vast reaches under the sea. Last month Canadian-born Marcel Cardinal. 38, now busily skindiving for fresh impressions off the French Riviera, exhibited his underwater seascapes in London's Matthiesen Gallery. This week Russell Swanson, 29, a U.S. skindiver, is displaying his water-soaked paintings in Philadelphia's William C. Blood gallery. For both, the underwater world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Underwater Colors | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Guests of Venezuela | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Thin Man (Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). Though his own private eye is often trained on blondes, Nick Charles (Peter Lawford) has a pert wife named Nora (Phyllis Kirk) to whom he is professedly faithful, and a wire-haired terrier named Asta who is faithful to him. Genteel and wryly suave, Nick seldom tangles physically with the blackmailers, assassins and sundry evildoers whom he ferrets out with one hand while reaching for a martini with the other. He rarely finishes a drink during the half-hour program, giving the impression that he is a frustrated alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Snoopers | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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