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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course none of this means that movies should be censored or directors shouldn't show all they feel necessary. It merely means that it takes a master to combine elements of transcending art with a genre which insists on spelling everything out. So why ruin pornography with redeeming social value? Because I Am Curious would have been a better film if all the redeeming social value was left out and all that remained was a lot of snatchshots and strange positions...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: I Am Curious (Yellow) | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

...will bother some of the players. After the pitiful Dartmouth game, one of them said to be kind to them since they had had a depressing enough experience just playing the game. But I was too subdued when I reported the game; I failed to demonstrate what a horror show it was. Out of all this misfortune and now critical press coverage, maybe something good will develop. Maybe next year all of Harvard's talent can be put together to make a winning, perhaps championship, team. The election of Regan is probably the biggest boost that Harvard lacrosse...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

...show had impressive sparseness. Wearing a formless sweater, black pants and sneakers, McKuen kept the talk to a discreet minimum and spent his time singing his songs-The World I Used to Know, a medley of Stanyan Street, Lonesome Cities and Listen to the Warm -and reciting a poem about one of his few New York friends, A Cat Named Sloopy. He wandered through a set that seemed to have been plucked from a haunted harbor on San Francisco Bay. If the fog spewing out of the NBC special-effects machine looked at times as if it were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: The Loner | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...know"), but he claims proudly that he sold 2,000,000 albums in 1968. "That's more than Andy Williams, more than Tony Bennett." The set for his television special, he says, "was the biggest single set ever built for TV." As a result of the show, he "had offers from every single network for a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: The Loner | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...night they would watch flocks of long-legged cranes fly over the isolated valleys or the aurora borealis fill half the sky with a light show...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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