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Word: lacing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days a year, Pasadena. Calif., is a gentle, cultivated city populated by little old ladies who sit behind lace curtains and, according to legend, knit Volkswagens. But on New Year's Day. Pasadena is no place for the timid. Bass drums defile the dawn, and the aroma of American Beauty mingles with the perfume of nervous palomino. The Tournament of Roses parade is all about girls and beauty; the afternoon's football game is supposed to separate the men from the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roses All Around | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Wall of Trees | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...Actor Darin and Actress Dee, who are Mr. and Mrs. in real life too, just sort of stand there most of the time and look like Tweedle Dumb and Twiddle Dee. And the production, like all of Ross Hunter's productions (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace), is in the cheapest kind of expensive bad taste. It's the sort of picture, in short, in which the heroine wears 32 costumes but only one expression: goo-goo eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real Dog | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...Street, that is the way Minsky wants it. The nearest thing to a striptease in the proceedings is a number in which a covey of chorus boys gingerly pluck parts of the costume from the frame of a stately brunette. She finally helps by sliding out of her black lace teddies unassisted, but it is all done in the brightest of spotlights and to the accompaniment, not of the traditional tummy-tossing tomtom beat but the blare of a stage band's pseudoprogressive jazz. It only seems like old times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burlesque: This Must Still Be the Place | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Shortly after war's end, he met Visconti and Fellini at Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Everymantis | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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