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Word: sensationalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has given News of the World a fond place in every second British home is a simple formula: deadpan reporting of crime, from adultery to zooerastry, in almost all the exhaustive (and libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of an Era? | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

Who's That Blonde? A friend got her the big break: a chance to play the shyster's house pet in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. In this tidbit part, she was an instant sensation. Letters came in by the sackful. All asked the same question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

The trouble with Glenn, as it turns out, is that his mother didn't love him, and the problem is cleared up as soon as he finds a pretty little prairie chicken (Felicia Farr) who takes him under her wing. The trouble with the picture, on the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

In the cold concrete of the great bunker, the whited sepulcher of National Socialism, the moviegoer has the vivid sensation, for most of two hours, that he is buried alive. An unquiet grave. Teletypes chatter, switchboards mumble, telephones scream, messengers dart. Behind closed doors the generals wrangle: How much do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

The second book is now out, and so is the verdict. Sagan's novel, Un Certain Sourire (A Certain Smile), written in two months, is the new literary sensation of Paris. FRANCOISE SAGAN REPEATS HER OFFENSE AND . . . WINS ! headlined one weekly. In Paris' Le Monde, venerable critic Emile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sagan's Second | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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