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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGHLIGHTS OF RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Top acts, hosted by Arthur Godfrey with his good old horse Goldie. Circus stars include Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Wil-liams, the Four Brizios Clown Act, Rogana, the Queen of Balance, the Mickey Antalek Chimps and the Lindstroms, high-wire unicyclists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema: may 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...earmarks of a swinging trip for Beatle John Lennon and his bride, Yoko Ono: a cruise to the U.S. on the Queen Elizabeth 2 in the company of such other swinging junketeers as Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. But there was a serious bureaucratic hitch. John had been busted last year for possession of marijuana, a crime which invalidated his U.S. visa. John battled with U.S. embassy officials in London right up to the last minute, but to no avail. Sellers and Starr had to sail without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...past half-century. He describes in an early novel the miraculous way in which a flat, abstract contrivance (in chess or art) can take on vitality and light: "Little by little, the pieces and squares began to come to life and exchange impressions. The crude might of the queen was transformed into refined power, restrained and directed by a system of sparkling levers; the pawns grew cleverer; the knights stepped forth with a Spanish caracole . . . Every creator is a plotter; and all the pieces impersonating his ideas on the board were here as conspirators and sorcerers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...TRUNK, son," the Queen said. "You're going to Harvard." In Cambridge the Prince met a wizard in corduroy who fed him spices full of visions. Banquets, English carriages, French cigarettes. He was really living...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: The Prince | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...stretching for three blocks behind the band. It was just like the Mardi Gras. Above the head of the people, brightly decorated umbrellas began to appear. Some were very elaborate, with fine, plush layers of feathers on them. One had a big black doll dressed up like a carnival queen fastened to the top. Tassles, fringe, sequins. Green, bright yellow, and lavender were the dominant colors. One umbrella was deep red with black and yellow trimming, like a great flaming torch. It had "Soul Brother" sprayed on it in glossy paint...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: New Orleans Jazz Funeral Pounds Gaily for the Dead | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

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