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Word: limped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules of good sculpture. A case in point is Stankiewicz's The Warrior, which is armored with a hatmaker's discarded boiler, has a butane-bottle head and a boiler-plate shield. The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling BX cable give it'away. Says Stankiewicz: "It's most menacing from the front, but it's futile in spite of its posture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Beauty of Junk | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Dean Martin, 39 (born Dino Crosetti), limp-tonsilled songbird and ex-straightman for Cinemoron Jerry Lewis, and Jeanne Biegger Martin, 30, onetime Miami model, his second wife: a daughter, their third child (his seventh). Name: Gina. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Callas was in full command of her remarkable voice-never luscious, but potent as TNT. She might have been good under any circumstances, but playing opposite a tangibly evil George London as Scarpia and supported by an orchestra made almost superhuman by Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, she left the audience limp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Callas' Tosca | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...role of the forceful general's limp lieutenant is made intriguing by Arnold Graham. He has a very effective voice, but his rather loose posture and hesitant sense of balance can be distracting. Richard Klinger plays an innkeeper with grace and tact. He has one significant line: "That leaves me nothing to do but talk, and that suits me fine...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet and Man of Destiny | 11/9/1956 | See Source »

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