Search Details

Word: gambols (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...skepticism. The 1959 announcement of the world's biggest world's fair was greeted with a who-needs-it attitude by many of the nation's best-heeled potential exhibitors. The Paris-based International Bureau of Expositions huffily refused to recognize Moses' $500 million gambol in the meadow as a proper world's fair on the grounds (among other reasons) that there can be only one world's fair per country per decade, and Seattle was it. But the big corporations came round, and some nations skirted the bureau code by allowing private trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Out of the Bull Rushes | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...ESTABLISHMENT. The Establishment company, a hip group of anti-p.r. men, demolish sacrosanct images and egos with laughing precision, and gambol satirically on what is nearly In or almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...Philharmonic Hall when the Paul Taylor Dance Company made its debut there last week before a near capacity house. Taylor and his troupe set out to be cozily charming rather than abstractly far-out. The result was atypical Taylor, an airy dance frolic as pleasantly unpretentious as a gambol on the green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Frolic in Motion | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...stagehands. All are female, and all gambol across the stage in bikinis and tights, pushing gaily colored panels before them. It's more interesting than looking at a curtain...

Author: By Constance E. Lawn, | Title: Rodgers' Newest: 'No Strings' | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...only previous Shakespearean experience was as Portia and Viola. I admire her when she sticks to the limited bailiwick in which she can excel. But as a Shakespearean she is a nullity. She is often termed the doyenne of American actresses; but her current gambol earns her no better title than Helen...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare Revisited | 7/23/1962 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next