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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pickup. In Ashland, Ky., Motorist W. S. Patton kept looking in his rear view mirror, wondered why a light truck was following him so closely, finally discovered that the truck had no driver, had been hooked to his bumper since he backed into it in a parking space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York._

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Keep 'Em Out | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...little more than a decade later, Harry Belafonte stands at the peak of one of the remarkable careers in U.S. entertainment. His own expressive, light brown hands-clenched in anger, or fanned in a kind of ineffable wonder, or carving an emotional tracery under the spotlights-are as familiar in the world's famed theaters and nightclubs and on U.S. TV as his husky voice. Instead of riding the IRT, Belafonte now has his choice of two Mercedes-Benzes; to the subway girl, who was his first wife, he was able to give a $10,000 platinum bracelet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Upbeat Pink. Belafonte usually strides on stage in pitch blackness, stations himself by the microphone before the spotlight bursts on him-light blue, lavender or "upbeat pink," depending on the mood he is trying to convey. For his female fans the famed Belafonte costume-a tailored ($27) Indian cotton shirt partially open, snug black slacks, a seaman's belt buckled by two large interlocking curtain rings-combines the dashing elegance of a Valentino cape with the muscled fascination of a Brando T shirt. The handsomely chiseled head is tipped slightly back, the eyes nearly closed. He is always backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Actually, Belafonte remains proudly self-conscious of being a Negro, turned down the part of Porgy in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Porgy and Bess because he felt that Catfish Row presented Negroes in an undignified light. He talks in analytically flavored prose about "Negro situations" and says: "In 1944, with three other Negro sailors and our dates, I was refused a table at the Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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