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Word: frowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within the confines of this problematic script, the three actors do not perform poorly. Richard Kavanaugh (Scooper) thrives on the satirical scenes, timing his funniest lines well, and delivering them in a booming baritone that reverbrates about the small theatre. He wears a sardonic frown that embodies his contempt for the culture he lives in. But he acts out his irrational moments less convincingly. The abrupt transition from penthouse humor to breakdown is ungraceful because he tries to express his disorder by physical rampaging rather than verbal interpretation. And the baritone he exploited earlier is over-exercised; like the play...

Author: By Jamie O. Aisenberg, | Title: The Big Apple Turned Over | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Seven years ago, when she turned pro, Chris Evert was a chunky teen-ager with a pretty frown of concentration and a strong game. She still has the frown and the form but Evert, 24, now the bride of fellow Pro John Lloyd, 25, has become a lissome beauty. Particularly in a bikini, as on the beach at Maui, where she dutifully draped Lloyd with leis during a recent vacation. Advantage, Evert, as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1979 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Playful pictures of Sesame Street's Cookie Monster dot the walls, and there are Bert and Ernie dolls to hug. Children frown in concentration as they glue pieces of macaroni to construction paper. An egg carton is converted to a colorful pin wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvest of Hope | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...night after hearing a despondent litany of the money ($40 billion) and time (ten years) it would take to go to the moon, with no guarantee of beating the Soviets, John F. Kennedy, 43, pushed his chair back from the table, walked into the Oval Office with a deep frown on his face and in five minutes sent a message out with Aide Ted Sorensen: "We are going to the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Push a Nation Beyond Itself | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...months ago chimed "Harvard Divest" and "Liberation to the Oppressed". That such admiration for a "tradition of quiet genteel success" and "a full column of Gardiners, all boasting home addresses such as Brookline and Greenwich and assorted American Embassies" was printed by a newspaper which professes to frown upon arbitrary power structures and their manifestations in South Africa and Playboy centerfolds is most surprising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Virtuous Example? | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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