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Word: gagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Broken Promises | 10/19/1966 | See Source »

...right of petition has been abridged on occasion, as in 1836 when the House of Representatives' "gag rule" cut off abolitionist demands. Fortunately, the right has survived all such challenges. If, however, the petition is to remain a meaningful force for "redress of grievances," it must be employed more sparingly-and as a precise, if impassioned, plea rather than as a manufactured publicity device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE PETITION GAME: Look Before Signing | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Despite Cronkite's unqualified success as a newsman, the network persuaded him to try to be an entertainer as well. Reluctantly, he agreed to host a CBS morning program to compete with Dave Garroway's Today Show, and he found himself a hostage to show business. A gag writer was hired to write his lines, and he lost control of the program. "I was reasonably charming," he insists to this day, "but the whole thing didn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Most Intimate Medium | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Around the Manhattan headquarters of American Airlines, one corridor gag is that "More women have gone to sleep with Bob Hall than with any other man in the world," and that's probably true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Boudoir Bob | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...Alphabet Murders. A funny thing happens to Tony Randall on his way out of a police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Case Dismissed | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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