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Word: peeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Final Word. Behind the scenes, designers took final tucks, drew a cautious curtain for a peep at the audience, were sometimes coaxed out to accept compliments, false or otherwise, and a chance at the champagne. "Darling," trilled Actress Melina (Never on Sunday) Mercouri, smashing her way through ranks of lesser spectators to get to Dior's Marc Bohan. "It was magnificent! Fantastic! Extraordinaire!" "No," said Bohan, pale but for the thousand carmine kiss marks on his cheeks, "I was not nervous, just a little worried." Said Mrs. Vreeland: "My dear, how really truly completely MARVELOUS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Truly Completely Marvelous | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...peep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oh Pshaw! | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...prosecutor, but Rogers won the case. In a morals case, police witnesses claimed they had watched the crime through holes in a door. Rogers lugged the door into court. He placed the defendant behind the door, put a girl on his lap, and invited judge and jury to peep through the door. None of them could see the defendant, who was forthwith acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Criminal's Best Friend | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...diet-demolishing waffles piled high with whipped cream, strawberries and powdered sugar.) Some marginal carny operators on the fair's "Gayway" are described by Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, 58, as "sick cats," since the fair has proven to be more of a family occasion than a peep show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Fair Weather in Seattle | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

Boccaccio '70 (RCA Victor). The sinewy music written by Composers Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli for the celebrated Italian peep show. In its several parts it manages to combine French swagger with Latin languor-an accomplishment that puts it several notches ahead of mail-order Hollywood prescriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

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