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Word: sheen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia). Winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the sleeper hit by New Playwright Frank D. Gilroy is written with precision, warmth, acute observation and unfailing honesty. The superb ensemble playing of Jack Albertson as the father, Irene Dailey as the mother, and Martin Sheen as their son is admirably recaptured in this album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...Right Pocks. In this new wave of wax museums, the figures are not really made of wax but of a plastic called vinyl plestisol, which, in addition to being fireproof, does not have the glossy sheen that tends to make wax figures look like wax figures. In charge of creating them is Earl Dorfman, 48, who used to do department-store window displays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Plastic | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Count to a Million. As graves are weeded and headstones set straight under the fond patriarchal eye of Grandfather Sam Ordway, the dead begin to seem nearly as quick as the living, and reminiscences have the soft, nostalgic sheen of loved stories often told. Author Humphrey deftly weaves them into a leisurely ramble through Southern history and Texas geography, with stops along the way for circuses and barbecues, political rallies and small-town jails, courting scenes and courtroom dramas, jokes, pranks and tall tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graveyard Bustling with Life | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

Within a few years Peter strikes it rich with a videotic series called Ben Bullet. He takes to wearing one of those silk-sheen suits that look like beaten stainless steel. In his pocket is an offstage mistress, but under his collar is prickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Kill & Make Up | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 24, 1964 | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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