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Word: hoods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tensest, toughest thrillers anyone could ask for. But Director Hubert Cornfield isn't content to stop there; he creates a surreal seminar in the poetics of violence. The small cast is uniformly good, and Marlon Brando is back in great form playing a hipster-hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...second of four sons in a proper Philadelphia family, went on from the University of Pennsylvania to take a law degree at Dickinson School of Law and work for a year in a large Philadelphia firm. When he found law incompatible, he turned to civic projects?the Robin Hood Dell concerts, the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company?and when the Depression struck, helped feed, clothe and house Philadelphia's unemployed. Under Miss Adams' influence Carroll had been trying his hand at horoscopes, and now he began to do them for the unemployed. He was impressed, he says, at how often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Astrology: Fad and Phenomenon | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Richard Boone, Rita Moreno and Jess Hahn play their laconic roles with subtle variations of character that are worth pages of dialogue. But Marlon Brando draws them all together and establishes the tone of the whole film. Playing a kind of hipster-hood-hero, Brando can chill the blood with a smile or describe dimensions with a move of his hand. Since he provided the driving force behind One-Eyed Jacks, of which he was both star and director in 1961, Brando has essayed a series of character roles in a succession of failures: a brooding cowpoke in The Appaloosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Small Packages | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...recent Friday afternoon, a 1959 green Oldsmobile was parked alongside the curb in a middle-class residential neighborhood of New York City. Two men got out, removed the license plates, and opened the hood slightly to make the car look as if it had been stolen or left alone while its owner went for help. Then they withdrew to a nearby window, where-unseen-they could watch what was to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Diary of a Vandalized Car | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Emperor's son Rudolf is impersonated by Omar Sharif, an Egyptian actor who plays an Austrian prince about as successfully as he played an American hood in Funny Girl. Rudolf, a wastrel who sasses his old man, takes frequent injections of morphine "for my migraines" and spends an unconscionable amount of his time with showgirls and socialists. Line (father to son): "In one respect you've always been consistent. You've disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Between the Lines | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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