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Word: grandes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the case awaiting grand jury action in Boston, police tightened the lid on their evidence, except to hint about a batch of love letters (presumably from someone other than Van Rie) and Lynn's diary. On that basis the murder trial-if it comes to that-should be one of the most sensational in a long while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of the Romance | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Norfolk-jacketed colonel, clipped of mustache and clipped of accent, bumped into the grand lady who of course turned out to be his long-lost love. As the two bodies collided, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture suddenly thundered of pain and passion. "I say," muttered the colonel. "You seem to have turned on my transistor radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Major Clown | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...first-night hoopla at Munich's Gloria Palast was pure Hollywood-grunting cops wrestling with crowds, limousines bulging with black-tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: A Tycoon Named Use | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Jackson Pollock, by Frank O'Hara, extravagantly lauds the late drip painter. Pollock was no demigod nor even a prophet, simply an original and forceful decorative artist on the grand scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boost for the Natives | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

BUTTER SURPLUS, once so mountainous (467 million Ibs. in 1954) that it seemed permanent, has been eliminated. Agriculture Department allocated last 20 million Ibs. to school lunch program. Government will still buy butter, give it away to schools and welfare groups as production increases next spring, but grand-scale surpluses of past years are unlikely to recur. Reason: overall milk production has failed to increase in proportion to consumer demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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