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Word: rolled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piercing the hollow, curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chapel in Concrete | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...owner, but what you'd call an anti-dog lover . . . and I believe in leash laws [June 27] wholeheartedly . . . Our dog stays at home-he does not tramp through vegetables and flowers, relieve himself on strangers' lawns, vomit on back porches, tip garbage pails or roll in manure -nor, might I add, does he bark incessantly for no good reason . . . As delinquent children are the offspring of lazy parents, so are delinquent dogs the product of so-called "dog lovers," who find it easier to let the neighbors supervise their canine friends' activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...House of Blue Lights (Chuck Miller; Mercury). A boogie-woogie in uptempo, with some nonsense words about boogie-woogie. The disk is a bestseller. Does it herald the decline of rock 'n' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Barretts of Wimpole Street, presented on the new CBS dramatic series Front Row Center, was accented with the pleasant roll of Elizabeth Barrett poetry ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") The best thing about the 1931Broadway hit, in fact, was the writing: unlike that of most TV plays, it was at least distinguishable from the commercials between the acts. Beyond the writing, however, The Barretts indicated again, as Front Row Center did a fortnight ago with Dinner at Eight, that it is next to impossible to squeeze a well-known stage play into less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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