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Word: kidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. "I'm behind you. Way behind." The message from Kennedy's older brother and junior Senate colleague, Robert, was accurate as well as amusing. Bobby is political patriarch of the clan and may be a candidate for President in a few years, but he is way behind his kid brother when it comes to the use of power on Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Home for Ted | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Zieff has also composed some striking magazine ads: the chubby kid eating Kellogg's Corn Flakes on the back steps, the tattooed cowpoke smoking Marlboro cigarettes, the Indian munching Levy's Rye Bread ("You don't have to be Jewish . . ."). Now that he is the top director in TV commercials and earns about $300,000 a year, he is in the fortunate position of being able to turn down six job offers for every one he accepts. He deals only with those few agencies-Wells Rich Greene, Doyle Dane Bernbach and Carl Ally-that will allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: Master of the Mini-Ha-Ha | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Liberty deteriorating into license has become a contemporary abuse in several arts. In Michael McClure's The Beard, which opened at a Greenwich Village theater last week, two characters made up as Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Broadway: Swapping Obscenities | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid are the heroine and hero is another secret that is safe with the playwright. They live in eternity and are decked out in white paper beards, presumably indicating that they are figures in mythology. Monotonous, ugly and self-concerned, their verbal mating dance is devoid of tenderness or desire. The innate hostility, fear, and infinite self-disgust that animate this twosome are conveyed with meticulous zeal by Billie Dixon as Harlow and Richard Bright as Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Broadway: Swapping Obscenities | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...lines." Then Ronnie lapsed into supersincerity by saying that "the convention, the party and the people of the U.S. will make that decision. It is not relevant what someone's personal desires might be." Translation for first voters: "Can I help it if I'm the kismet kid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: In Unpath'd Waters | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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