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Word: kins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural timidity like a staff with which he hopes to beat the role into submission. His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funny Valentine | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

Following the faceoff, however, with five and a half minutes remaining, Yale attackman Bruce Smith fed Kin Yellot on the left side of the crease for the deciding tally...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Lacrossemen Drop Finale to Yale, 6-5 | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...subject to a fault. Absence of mind may be appealing enough in the intoxicated flesh. But mindless prose about mindless protagonists, mindlessly cavorting in and out of bed from Cambridge to California, on this, that and and the other variant of a chemical lobotomy is next-of-kin to sheer trash...

Author: By Alice C. Van buren, | Title: Remembrance of Things Better Forgotten | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...beds, or roommates, until they were satisfied with the arrangements. At 3 a.m., the command center received a call from the doctors that the civilian prisoners were wide awake and wanted to talk, so debriefers were sent over to get on with the processing. Meantime, the first next-of-kin calls were being put through to the U.S. "Say, Honey, it's me," one prisoner stammered. "I hope you haven't burned all your brassières." "Hi, Mom." "It's been a long time." The calls, which were to be limited to 15 minutes, averaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: An Emotional, Exuberant Welcome Home | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...hand to mix it up with other lucky recipients of genuine invitations (some 200,000 souvenir invitations "suitable for framing" but otherwise useless had been mailed out) were 200 relatives of the Nixons, many of whom had never before met their famous kin. To handle their needs, a special task force was set up at the Watergate, with Navy enlisted men manning the telephones and Army officers planning the logistics. Six red-white-and-blue buses marked FIRST FAMILY transported the assembled relations around town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes: Something for Everybody | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

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