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Word: flickering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...funny as a dentist's drill as he plays painful jokes with musical seat cushions and leaky glasses to the lonely giggle-gurgle of his own laughter. When he learns of his cuckolding, his face looks as deserted as a broken window. Fetching Googie Withers has eyes that flicker with the reflected firelight of romance, and her voice is a stolen kiss. As a kind of reformed cad, Richard Johnson is worldly wise without being world-weary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sex as a Trinomial Theorem | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four who had been slow to react by a flicker were set to doing pushups. Explained the captain: "We teach them to respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command." Under pressure of this sort, morale is sky-high in the 82nd. Enlisted men call out "All the way, sir!" when they salute an officer, get the reply: "Airborne!" One 82nd sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: This Is the Army | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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