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Word: rainbowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Purists and adulators of Judy Garland may carp, and one can understand why, but this all-black musical version of The Wizard of Oz is a carnival of fun. It grins from the soul, sizzles with vitality, and flaunts the gaudy hues of an exploding rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Jumping Jivernacular | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Immediately preceding the Quaker-Tiger match-up, in the Rainbow classic, Penn displayed foul problems, both personal and technical, in losing to Ohio State and Tulsa. The Quaker's 100-88 victory over Florida in the classic was the only compensation for their 6000 mile trek...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Crimson Teams Face Full Weekend Slate | 1/10/1975 | See Source »

This is a soap bubble of a play. It floats about weightlessly. Its translucent emptiness glints with rainbow colors consisting of quippy dialogue and glamorously exploitative star performances. Expiring at last it drops to earth in the form of a sentimental teary splat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Quick, Rex, the Kleenex | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...possible to overrate the density of Friedrich's allegories. There is, for example, a German critic's claim that the rock against which the little traveler in Landscape with Rainbow (circa 1809) is leaning is really "the symbol of faith" and that his hat on the ground is "a sign of humility." But often the symbolism is plain enough, as in a well-known picture usually called The Wreck of the "Hope" (circa 1822). Friedrich was inspired, at first, by reports of early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Awe-Struck Witness | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...fate of weighty books in summer to be lugged to shores and mountains, to gather sand and silt and rings where vodka-and-tonic glasses treated them like coasters, and to go unopened. War and Peace, Gravity's Rainbow, Remembrance of Things Past, The Gulag Archipelago: they will all be home soon, reminders of Mark Twain's melancholy observation that a classic is "a book which people praise and don't read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Making the Most of The Best | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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