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Word: grossness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tournament on the mere fact that he didn't relate his score correctly on a little piece of paper. Is there any doubt that Roberto de Vicenzo had the same score as Bob Goalby or that his play merited a playoff round to determine the just winner? This gross injustice is a mockery of sportsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1968 | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

There is no space here to describe more than a few of the iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Falstaff | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

...went back next day to get the pencil," he continues, "a young boy whose father owned a movie chain asked me if I would like to make an investment in a theatre he was building." Sack contributed $100 when the house opened in Lowell. The theatre only managed to gross $43 on its first...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Has Success Spoiled Ben Sack? | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

...legitimate stage theatre known as the Majestic, opened with a 70 mm. Todd-AO production of Oklahoma! A year later, the Gary introduced itself with Gigi. Road shows of that magnitude became the foundation of Sack's enterprises. Last year, nine road shows accounted for 43 per cent of gross admissions. Movies may not have become better, but they had become profitable...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Has Success Spoiled Ben Sack? | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

Virtually every leading economist-along with the business and banking communities and Government fiscal experts-believes that a general tax rise is mandatory if the U.S. is to escape what might be a runaway boom (see BUSINESS). The gross national product grew at a frenetic $20 billion pace during the first quarter, while consumer prices soared at the rate of at least 4% a year-faster than at any other period since the Korean War year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: In the Grass | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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