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Word: loy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to stop our "Ugly-American Diplomacy" before we lose our most loy al anti-Communist ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1978 | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...ever deserved the word 'infectious' to apply to their charm, it was he. Jeannette MacDonald's nightingale ambitions are only mildly offensive here, and there is a stretch in the picture when she's even sort of sexy--although she's nothing compared to the poutingly hungry, frustrated Myrna Loy who shows up like a surprise guest at a party...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

...tight as the book and moves with a drive which insures that its charm is never static. Everything in this picture seems always to be in mad, advancing motion: elevators, eyebrows martinis--all pushing to the final clinch. The movie looks wonderful, so does everyone in it. When Myrna Loy wrinkles her nose it makes you wait for weeks to see a girl at a party who's got that talent. Nick and Nora Charles, it's repeated often, were modeled on Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. That spirit made it as far as the book, but the film...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

Springsteen first appeared in the mid-'60s for a handful of loy al fans from the scuzzy Jersey shore. Then, two record albums of wired brilliance (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle) enlarged his audience to a cult. The albums had ecstatic reviews - there was continuing and talk of "a new Dylan" growing - but slim sales. Springsteen spent nearly two years working on his third album, Born to Run, and Columbia Records has already invested $150,000 in ensuring that this time around, everyone gets the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...floating Cabinet meeting on record. "That was longer than Gone With the Wind," remarked Actress Joanne Woodward following a film tribute to her and Husband Paul Newman in Manhattan last week. The program, which featured clips from 27 movies by Woodward and Newman, attracted Actresses Shelley Winters and Myrna Loy, Director Otto Preminger and some 2,800 well-heeled fans who contributed up to $250 apiece for seats at the Film Society of Lincoln Center benefit. "It's really a celebration of celluloid," quipped Newman, who sported a beard he had grown for his title role in Robert Altman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 19, 1975 | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

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