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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glittery eye makeup, strutting and singing, posturing like a crane with his skeletal legs draped in clinging white jersey pants, squeaking around on little white sneakers. Jagger is half the show; the tight, excellent rock 'n' roll of the augmented quartet behind him is easy to miss if you get mesmerized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Day in the Life | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...bank accounts and takes the money. Technically, this form of resistance constitutes willful failure to pay, punishable by a maximum $10,000 fine and one year in prison. So far, the government has chosen not to prosecute anyone from whom it recovers the money due, as it has from Miss Baez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The War Tax Protesters | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...perform a couple of vaudeville turns, imitating the Mitteleuropäischer doctor who first diagnosed the child's brain damage and a batty vicar who tries to help. Bates pushes for the comedy as he does for almost every other emotion, and the strain shows. Miss Suzman, who last appeared as Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra, is good when Sheila is tough and tart but bad when she is tender. When she recalls finding Joe playing with building blocks in a way that just for that one moment gave faint promise of normality, Miss Suzman recites the monologue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just Alive | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...oatmeal nearly every day of his life; he hated casual human contact and touching doorknobs. One of his many mistresses recalls that when she once innocently tasted his soup in a restaurant, Kaufman promptly ordered another bowl. When she asked him how he could kiss her, Kaufman replied, "Well, Miss S., your tasting my soup was one kind of risk. My kissing you was another. Let's concentrate on the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Late George Aptly | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

Died. Helen G. Bonfils, 82, board chairman of the Denver Post, sometime actress and patron of the theater; in Denver. The younger daughter of Frederick G. Bonfils, colorful co-owner of the Post with Harry Tammen, "Miss Helen" was proprietor and principal stockholder of the largest and most important paper in the Rocky Mountain states for nearly four decades. She took time out from her publishing duties occasionally for appearances on the Denver and New York stages, but her more important theatrical role was that of angel and producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: MILESTONES | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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