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Word: frenched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms of entertainment have raised more eyebrows than French movies. Now the old spice is coming in a new flavor-frankly sexy, often amoral, but invariably hewed close to ugly, beautiful realities. See CINEMA, New Wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...prosperous French businessman, Bouché was born 54 years ago in Prague, traveled much in youth, early demonstrated a flair for art, and made his first big money with fashion drawings for the Paris Vogue. Now settled in Manhattan, he spends a third of each year in Europe, charges $3,000 to $8,000 a portrait. He once dabbled in abstract expressionism, now pooh-poohs it: "I consider myself the avant garde, because nobody sings the song of the upper level of society today. Nobody speaks of the exceptional human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sparrow | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...share in September. The company recently announced plans to raise more capital by issuing 328,800 new shares. Shareholders were given rights to buy new shares, and the price jumped to $366. Today Machines Bull is valued on a stock basis at $240 million, among the top French companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Bull Market | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The ultimate in spectator sports, Perilous Assignment lets the arm chair adventurer sit in on a mountain-climbing class conducted by French Guide Gaston Rebuffat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still casts its warm, affectionate illumination on Negro life on Chicago's South Side; La Plume de Ma Tante remains a vintage French revue; My Fair Lady and The Music Man head the musical comedy division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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