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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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ONLY the cast, who has the inhuman burden of providing everything Dear World's creators have omitted, cannot be blamed for the show's failure. Neither can Peter Glenville, the director, who has contributed some nice group blocking--an achievement that doesn't mean much when the stage is full of paper dolls...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Dear World | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

...kind of a Veep Spiro T. Agnew will make is more than usually clouded. At the beginning of the campaign, he made anonymity an asset. A joking reference to "What's-His-Name" warmed an audience up. The admission that Agnew w.as "not exactly a household word" carried a nice touch of modesty. By the end of the campaign, many Republican strategists wished that Agnew had remained What's-His-Name. The Vice President-elect had become not only a figure of comedy and controversy but also a decided liability. "Sure I think he hurt us," said a Nixon aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 39th Doge | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...American Cancer Society. The commercial represents what might be called the new "spoiler" genre of public-service messages that are stirring the TV air and, at times, the American conscience. Urban America Inc has a commercial showing a ghetto child who calls, "Here, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. Nice kitty." The camera discovers a rat. Voiceover: "If your child mistook a rat for a cat, how would you feel? Our cities need help, your help. If you think there's nothing you can do to help, think harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: The Spoilers | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...There were so many," she said, wiping her hands on her apron. "We used to serve all the boys. We sure miss the Oilers. Such nice boys...

Author: By Paul Hemphill, | Title: 'Baseball Bums' and the Graceville Oilers | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

...penetrating, visionary than Owen's. Owen's came out of the particular circumstances of the trenches, and there is nothing to make us think that if he had not been on the Western Front ... he would not have warned anyone about anything at all. He would have been a nice chap and a quiet poet. With Sylvia Plath, her femininity is that her hysteria comes completely out of herself...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Feminine Is A 4-Letter Word | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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