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Word: penguin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penguin & Joker. Was all this to be taken seriously? By the kids, yes; they will watch anything. The grownups are supposed to see Batman as camp, a sort of tongue-in-chic philosophy of pop culture, which decrees that anything that is really bad must be awfully good. In this case, Batman is so really bad it is terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Holy Flypaper! | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Wednesday, January 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The second week of this new twice-a-week series features Burgess Meredith as the Penguin -a fine-feathered foe of that dynamic duo, Batman and Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 21, 1966 | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...Melts explores the comic possibilities of sex in Antarctica and coaxes forth little more than a frozen smile. Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unlikely Comedies | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

Segal, author of Political Africa and into Exile, is editor of Africa South and the Penguin African Series. A prominent radical in South Africa, he went into exile in 1960 during the crisis following the shooting of a large group of Africans by government police at Sharpeville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Segal to Speak | 12/3/1964 | See Source »

...pussycat (Diana Sands) is a hellcat, a down-to-dirt prostitute with a tongue of brass. The owl (Alan Alda) is more of a penguin with a hotfoot, a bookstore clerk whose bookish dignity is destined to be bruised beyond repair. As figments of their own imaginations, they conceive of themselves, respectively, as a model and a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Punch & Judy Revisited | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

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