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Word: lizabeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Currently, Gilbert is combating illness, old age and dwindling celebrity in a Mediterranean villa that is decorated like an elaborate set from The Roaring Twenties. Soon after King's arrival, life begins to imitate artifice. There are decadent aristocrats, a mysterious mistress (Nadia Cassini), a vulturous ex-wife (Lizabeth Scott), and a professor from Berkeley (Al Lettieri) found dead in a bathtub-just like Diabolique-who pops up later as an assassin. And of course there are also the requisite bizarre coincidences, intimations of labyrinthine intrigues, and murders. It is all highly improbable, like one of Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PULP: Hack for Hire | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...idea for POOFF (Preservation Of Our Femininity and Finances) after she spent one too many ladies' luncheons bemoaning the sudden threatened obsolescense of her friends' wardrobes and her own. In one week, the organization's membership grew from 19 to 1,000 (among them, Actresses Lizabeth Scott and Connie Stevens, Mrs. Harold Robbins and Barbara Mutton's daughter-in-law, Cheryl Reventlow). Dues of $20 a year were established, mainly to cover costs of petitions and bumper stickers like the one already being printed in shocking pink and shocking language: UP YOUR MIDI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Line of Most Resistance | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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