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Word: ringers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monika Henreid, 20, daughter of Actor-Director Paul Henreid, has appeared as a cocktail lounge singer and in several television shows, will soon appear in her father's forthcoming Dead Ringer (with Bette Davis and Karl Maiden). Her father once made an evaluation of her talents that stands as a classic of celebrity kinsmanship. "I think she is enormously talented," he said, wooden-faced. "I don't say that because I'm her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Idols Junior Grade | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead ringer for Romy Schneider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Europe Plain & Simple | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods. In the cockpits sat some of racing's top drivers, among them Indianapolis Veteran A. J. Foyt. Down went the flag. Off screamed the Corvettes. And zoom-a ringer from G.M.'s family production line ran off with the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tempest Fugit | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Letting Go, by Philip Roth. This overlong but nonetheless impressive novel about young college faculty members shows off the author's remarkable ear for dead-ringer dialogue and his sharpeye characterization of unhappy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 14, 1962 | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Fiats and Alfas at a clip that set an Italian auto executive to chortling, "So the Germans thought they were the only ones who could export cars!" In the bustling English Ford agency in Genoa, one of the scores of Genoese awaiting delivery of a new Anglia stabbed his ringer at the word "future"' in a poster proclaiming "There's a Ford in your future," and muttered sadly: "How true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Filling Europe's Highways | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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