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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest TV surprises since his New York Jets won football's Super Bowl. Television, after all, is already surfeited with football, with talk shows and lowbrow entertainment. The Playboy After Dark series, by another TV interloper. Hugh Hefner, is all pretension and forced fun. Yet somehow, as U.S. viewers discovered in the premiere last week, Joe's show had an insouciance, a spontaneity and a genuine joie de vivre that even congenital Namath haters must have found infuriatingly engaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Shows: Broadcast Joe | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt of the Sun shamelessly overlooks in favor of pop-psych melodramatics. A pity, too, because when this Freudian version of the conquest of Peru concentrates on the pomp and circumstance traditional to movie spectaculars, it is a lot of cornball fun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pop and Circumstance | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...determine whether or not his quarterback should continue to play even when he did not enjoy the sport anymore. Champi thought for a long time about quitting. and he said that everyone he discussed it with agreed that it was a sound decision since football was no longer fun. So the question remains. if Yovicsin does not feel that Champi is old enough to make a decision about a facet of his own life. whom does he recommend as the person to make the decision for Champi...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/16/1969 | See Source »

...discovered after discussing a visit by "volunteers.") First, they can always tell, immediately, an imposter, and feel they are part of a freak show: when they see students imitating the bizarre behavior which they can't control, they are shamed and rightly hurt, that they are being made fun...

Author: By Jerry SILBERMAN Antioch college, | Title: The Mail BOSTON STATE | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

...overlook the fact that Destroy, She Said is mummifyingly boring, it is actually quite a lot of fun. Marguerite Duras, who executed this excellent satire, has good credentials for the job. Besides writing the screenplays for Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Une Aussi Longue Absence she also attended the birth of the anti-novel movement, making such notable contributions to the genre as Moderato Cantabile and The Sea Wall. In her directorial debut, she has unfortunately committed one rather crucial error. She seems to have been the only one who didn't get her own joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Modest Fame | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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