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Word: gnomish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a plotless exercise, the film relies much too heavily on the hero's gnomish appearance and musical abilities: at one point the camera stands still while Moore's trio swings through a long and not very interesting jazz number. Miss Kendall's absurd composure seems more daft and deft than the muggings and pratfalls of the near-hysterical comedians around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Suzy's Two: Cynthia & Junction | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Gatto has established a new freshman scoring record, 42 points, in leading the Yardling to a 3-1-1 record. The gnomish halfback has scored on a 95-yard kickoff return and several open field dashes from scrimmage. He has also been effective as a power runner, pass receiver, and tenacious defensive corner back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Underdog Freshmen to Challenge Strongest Yale Eleven in Years | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Heroes. There are many Vietnamese heroes of the long war. One of the most bemedaled is Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Thanh Yen, 42, of the Vietnamese marines, who has spent 15 years fighting the Communists. A bitter, brown gnomish man called the "Little Tiger," Yen last week, as he always does, was walking every step of the way with his 1,400-man Vietnamese task force in Operation Concord. Beside him was his adviser, U.S. Marine Major William Leftwich, 34, whom one of his superiors has called "the best American adviser in the country." They set out early in the dazzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...death-defying feats with never a hair misplaced nor a dirty fingernail. From time to time his teeth literally sparkle. Jack Lemmon, reading his lines at a steady 130 decibels, is the spoof villain. As black-clad Professor Fate, equipped with a stovepipe hat, a moustache to twirl and gnomish assistant (Peter Falk), he is forever launching devilish devices against Leslie and forever being Foiled Again. Natalie Wood is a pert, cigar-puffing suffragette who goes along as girl reporter on the great automobile race from New York tp Paris, via Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sock & Row | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

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