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Word: eying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little play of puppets...everything happens in it that could never happen, its personages are not real men and women, nor the shadows of them, but dolls or marionettes of paste and cardboard, moving upon wires which are visible even in a little light and to the dimmest eye," Jacinto Benavente says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially in the second...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: The Bonds of Interest | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

...fall truly in love with equally dull Silvia (Demetra Striggles), who luckily stands to inherit an enormous fortune from her fractious father (Tony Maier). Dona Sirena the matchmaker (Lucy Raudenbush), a magnificent grande dame whose social position is somewhat frayed for lack of funds, turns a blind, pragmatic eye to the goings-on of her niece Columbine (Anne Pederson). Miss Pederson's voice is sometimes weak, but she plays a very hot little piece...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: The Bonds of Interest | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

...mostly among pop groups and folk singers. "They're interested in astrology because they've found the material things failing them, and they're trying to find their souls." In Manhattan, one of the brightest young astrologers is 28-year-old Barbara Birdfeather, who is writing a column for Eye magazine and draws private clients from the under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Astrology: Fad and Phenomenon | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...study of earth resources. With four electrically synchronized cameras, they shot pictures of selected areas in the Southwest U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico and Brazil. Using different filters and film sensitive to a variety of wave lengths of light, the cameras actually saw more of the earth than meets the eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rousing End to a Relaxed Flight | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...other people's pasts. His speech was marked by rattling prosody and tart aphorisms. Samples: "Two bottles that hold less than they appear to hold are a perfume bottle and a whisky bottle." "Truth is stranger than falsies." "We can't go through the eye of a needle because of our baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Late Starter | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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