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Word: raying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triumph of Distant Thunder is Ray's humanism, his careful, measured naturalism. The film, shot in color, is beautiful and direct, sophisticated not in plot but insight. In the last scene, Ananga tells Gangacharan she is pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famine | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

WRITE IF YOU GET WORK: THE BEST OF BOB & RAY by BOB ELLIOTT and RAY GOULDING 177 pages. Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loony Logic | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...perilously close to their targets. If they miscalculate, they may be mistaken for the real thing. But if they maintain just enough distance, they can cause the real thing to be mistaken for them. This explains why half the shows on radio and TV nowadays sound suspiciously like Bob & Ray spoofs. In their 29 years as a comedy team - mostly on radio, with excursions into TV and Broadway - Bob Elliott, 52, and Ray Goulding, 53, have rarely misjudged that ironic remove. As a result, newscasts, soap operas, man-in-the-street interviews, sports features and public service announcements, among other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loony Logic | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...Ray's ridicule is a shoe that fits so many feet it scarcely matters which one it was taken from. No prior knowledge of Mary Margaret McBride is necessary to enjoy their Mary McGoon, with her recipe for frozen ginger ale salad. One need never have heard Mary Noble, Backstage Wife to enjoy the hilariously muddled banalities of their Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loony Logic | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Bare Scripts. As Bob & Ray see it, the world of broadcasting - and by implication the world - follows a loony logic based on the laws of improbability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loony Logic | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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