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Word: martinisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boggs of Louisiana; Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; David Freeman, chairman of the T.V.A.; Russell Peterson, former Governor of Delaware and president of the National Audubon Society; John Sawhill, president of New York University and former administrator of the Federal Energy Administration; Martin Ward, president of the plumbers and pipefitters union; Jerome Wiesner, president of M.I.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Camp David Guest List | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. When he finally seized centerstage, he stopped being a straight man and became a live -or maybe frazzled-wire. Murray is a master of comic insincerity. He speaks in italics and tries to raise the put-on into an art form. His routine resembles Steve Martin's, with a crucial difference. Where Martin is slick and cold, Murray is disheveled and vulnerable. One feels that Murray's manic behavior is a cover for some rather touching neuroses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Animal Bunk | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...Cruel Shoes, Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

BORN. To E. Howard Hunt, 60, convicted Watergate burglar and author of 54 books, and his wife of 18 months, Laura Martin Hunt, 34, a former Spanish teacher: a son; in Miami. The child, named Austin Dairing, is her first and his fifth (four by his late first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 9, 1979 | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble playing with Muppets. Bob Hope sells ice cream at a fair, and Kermit chooses dragonfly ripple. Milton Berle runs Madman Mooney's Hubcap Heaven, a very used car lot, and Steve Martin is loathsomely realistic as a hostile waiter. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy also make a brief appearance, one of their last. Jim Henson, the tall, skinny creator of short, froggy Kermit, has made a gallant gesture in dedicating the movie to Bergen's "memory and magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Green Blues | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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