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Word: ribbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural talent for performing, and two men who do. It is the old women in the story who claim the greatest attention. They are tart and perceptive, with matching dialogue-not surprising from the man who wrote Born Yesterday and Adam's Rib. "You make me most uneasy," one of them remarks accurately at Kanin's snooping. "You seem detectivy, in a nasty way." Defeated by the complications he uncovers, the sleuth forsakes the project-as a screenplay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Ken Howard, 33, tall, blond actor on Broadway (Seesaw) and TV (Adam's Rib); and Margo Coleman, 37, freelance writer and daughter of Columnist Ann Landers; she for the third time, he for the second; on March 13 in Chicago, three months after he opened in Equus and she interviewed him for the Chicago Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1977 | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...will probably make the second team this year behind the Yale grappler who administered D'Agostino's lone loss when Sal was forced by the team score to gamble for a pin. Ely and D'Agostino did not meet because the Crimson matman missed the Princeton mat with a rib injury...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Ready for Eastern Tournament | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rich Man, Poor Man | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...BIONICS are multiplying like Texas Instruments' common stock. In addition to the Six Million Dollar Man and its automated rib-out, Bionic Woman, ABC has Holmes and Yoyo, featuring a robot programmed to do cops' work for kids' amusement. NBC recycles The Invisible Man as Gemini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Boom Tube's Prime Time | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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