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Word: seenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they've seen everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Competition in the Catskills | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...When the play was finished, apart from critics who claimed to miss polish and high oratorical style, the cheering audience was willing to go Siobhan one better. The response suggested that the production (headed for Broadway in the fall) may be one of the most spectacular Shakespearean shows yet seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: Sound & Fury | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...McKenna made her Lady Macbeth warm and feminine ("I feel people should have compassion for the sinners of the world"). In the sleepwalking scene, her red hair streaming above a white, wispy gown and her hands scrubbing themselves in ghastly compulsion, Actress McKenna put on the greatest mad scene seen in the U.S. since Callas' Lucia di Lammermoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: Sound & Fury | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...since the 19305. when Japan was the world's top swimming power, had Japanese coaches seen such a likely prospect. They corrected his body roll and built him into an iron-hard (5 ft. 6½ in., 150 lbs.) competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fantastic! | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop ("It's the scabbiest workshop you've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Man on a Lark | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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