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Word: pressers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realism intrinsically banal. But, as Levine knows, there is another, even larger audience consisting of "people who don't live solely in the art world, people who are related to the kind of people I paint." He is delighted when one of those exclaims, "That picture of a presser looks exactly like my uncle," or "That woman on the beach reminds me of my aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Coney Island Daumier | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...senator who wants to dispossess the poor but tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Finian's Rainbow | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...week climbed dead on course from Cape Canaveral with $4,000,000 worth of sensing equipment crammed into it. Then, after 3½ min. because of what was officially described as "a human error" in the information fed into a computer, Mariner wandered irresolutely off course, and a button presser on the Cape gave it the order to blow itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Go | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...rickety vaudeville vehicle designed to display the low-comedy high jinks of British Buffoon Norman Wisdom, an artificial hybrid who seems to have resulted from the cross-pollination of Tom Ewell Jerry Lewis and an otter. Wisdom plays a knockabout Cockney trying to sing his way from pants presser to Palladium. Enroute, he falls off a psychiatrist's couch is clobbered over the head by a fat-lady voice coach ("We must always remember to keep our vowels open!"), gets stuck astraddle a spiked, swinging gate. When that gets rusty, he drops ice cubes down m'lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Union Jackanapes | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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