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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resting on the two assumptions that all discomfort is a source of humor, and that any action can be made funny if it is repeated often enough. The best examples are the more subtle representations of these simple precepts: a woman walking away from having sat on a pie, not knowing that it was a pie; or the mass exposure of unfaithful husbands...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Golden Age of Comedy | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...kids down from prep school for Easter vacation were puzzled by this heroine of another generation and probably confirmed in their judgment of that generation as hopelessly square. But the squares themselves glowed under Betty's apple-pie charm. They were perhaps a little disappointed by the show, but at 42 or thereabouts, Betty still has the legs everyone remembers-almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Ham & Legs | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...possibilities for further desecration, as Miss Alderley envisioned them, were endless: Frank Sinatra as the defendant in Trial by Jury, charged with stealing a pizza pie; The Gondoliers remade into The Road to Venice, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. It was even suggested to Dorothy Alderley that Elvis Presley might play Nanki-Poo. Snapped she: "I'd Nanki-Poo him if I could get my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Object All Sublime | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie itself is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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