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Word: kidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast has a good time. The nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: South Pacific | 4/24/1965 | See Source »

...economy is strong. Tax reductions did stimulate industry and help business last year. We will continue to be aided this year by a further tax reduction." Mused Los Angeles Sportswear Manufacturer Richard Woodard: "It's sure a different kind of country and economy than when I was a kid back in the '20s and '30s. With all these things going for us today, if we drop the ball we have nobody to blame but ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Excellent, Buoyant & Ebullient | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret's wriggly portrayal of a hick-town temptress requires orchestral accompaniment, their romance tends to slacken whenever the jukebox goes dead. Bus finally readjusts to civilian life by discovering that happiness is a rebuilt carburetor and his kid sister's chum Judy, sensitively played by Janet Margolin (of David and Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Day's Knight | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...Yellow Kid, considered by many to be the first bona-fide comic strip, contributed the phrase "yellow journalism" to the language. Wearing a bright yellow nightgown on which words were scrawled (forerunners of later balloons), the jug-eared little tough got away with sadism that is no longer permitted. He bashed his pals over the head with a golf club, pummeled a little Negro boy while a goat nibbled his woolly hair. Other kids followed: the Katzenjammers ("Mit dose kidds, society iss nix"), Buster Brown, Little Nemo, and the long-gone Kinder Kids, a strip exquisitely drawn by the cubist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...valentines to Charlie, and a variety of clothes to Snoopy.) The psychiatry Schulz includes in Peanuts comes from his own intuition; he seldom reads any weighty tomes. "I try to remember that basically cartooning is drawing funny pictures. So I just draw some kind of wild action, or a kid with a funny expression on his face, and then try to think of an idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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