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Word: lair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World of Henry Orient is a precociously smart comedy that proposes juvenile innocence as an effective curb on adult delinquency. Chief delinquent is Peter Sellers, who as Concert Pianist Henry Orient attempts to seduce an undecided young matron (Paula Prentiss). Circling his prey in a lush Manhattan lair, he glances into the street, and blanches at what he sees: two diminutive furies, one as apple-cheeked and winsome as Heidi, the other an indescribable creature with sheep-dog hairdo, daredevil eyes, and a tacky mink coat that grazes her ankles. What do they want? "It's exactly the sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up in Gotham | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Predictably, when the curtain fell last week in the converted moviehouse that is her winter lair, she could claim one of the best 1 Puritani productions ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Persistent One | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...Margaret Leighton (they played opposite each other in As You Like It). Now Harvey lives in the $1,000,000 Beverly Hills hut of blonde and sumptuous Joan Cohn, 42-year-old widow of Harry Cohn, the onetime king of Columbia Pictures. Inside this off-white, Louis XV lair, Harvey whispers apologetically to visitors, "This isn't really my taste. It isn't really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Boy Prince | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...initial experience of "smallness" is even more acute than at Harvard. One girl, wandering aimlessly through the Bear's Lair, one of the Union cafeterias, complained, "I never see anyone I know here anymore." To overcome this loneliness, the high school friend becomes a powerful crutch...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Univ. of California at Berkeley: Cliques and Student Alienation | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

...this juncture that severe group pressures begin to attack the student. Specific cafes and plazas are the very definite hangouts of various groups. On the Terrace, another of the Union lunch spots, a large foreign and graduate student block congregates. Both the Bear's Lair and Jules', an off-campus restaurant, are the sanctums of the fraternity-sorority crowd. One sorority girl commented that she "never saw any of her friends on the Terrace," but always found them at Jules...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Univ. of California at Berkeley: Cliques and Student Alienation | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

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