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Word: roof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Music and lyrics by the Fiddlers on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, add new dimensions to Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, featuring Sir Michael Redgrave, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Natalie Schafer. Tippy Walker and Peter (Herman of the Hermits) Noone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 4, 1966 | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written beautifully articulated scores for Fiorello! and Fiddler on the Roof. In The Apple Tree, the score, like the show, lacks everything, including earplugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Plop Art | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...high-wheeled horse-drawn calesas of old Manila, with their tasseled canopies and courtly cocheros, have given way to the ubiquitous Jeepney, a freelance taxicab that typically sports a high-gloss enamel finish in rainbow hues, Playboy-bunny mudguards, pink-fringed roof, and a sign that reads "God Is My Copilot." Crammed with such passengers as pigs, chickens, guitarists and call girls, and plagued with an absence of brakes and springs, the Jeepney needs celestial guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A New Voice in Asia | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Died. Jane Bunche Pierce, 33, U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche's daughter, a housewife with three small children; of injuries suffered when she fell or jumped from the roof of her nine-story apartment building; in The Bronx, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also disabuse some readers of the notion that all Oxford students are bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scolding Cousins | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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