Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realistic robots, in fact, stalk the fair. Pepsi-Cola has about 350 of them, doll-size, flanking a boat ride that children seem to like more than anything else. Scottish dolls climb steep plaid mountains, Iranian dolls fly on Persian carpets, and French dolls cancan. The dolls sing an original tune about the cohesion of the peoples of the world that might have been composed by Wendell Willkie...
Died. Ted Collins, 64, Kate Smith's manager and business partner for 34 years, a onetime phonograph-record salesman who in 1929 heard the unknown Kate sing a few lines in a Broadway show, quit his job to team with her in a company called "Kated," promoted the belt-'em-out singer into one of the hottest properties on radio and TV, making so much money (they grossed $27 million in their first 20 years) that he could indulge his passion for sports by dropping $1,000,000 on the unsuccessful New York Yanks football team...
...paddies of the delta are already flooded ankle-deep. Plodding patiently across them, in a tableau ancient as the land itself, peasants in conical hats and mud-caked pants thrust pale green rice shoots into the fertile soil beneath the water. And in the humid dusk, countless crickets sing out-or get themselves captured by small boys who sell them to gambling elders for cricket fights...
Allergy in Melbourne. She stumbled onstage in her street clothes and went straight into her opening number, When You're Smiling. Strutting around and mugging, she invited her audience to "Let's all sing together!" but they wouldn't have any of that. "I just couldn't get out of that hotel," she said, and a voice yelled, "Have another brandy!" She didn't need...
...best be described as follows: zzzzzzz. The players are equally interesting. Nancy Kwan, who claims to be a genuine Eurasian, looks like an American chorine with Scotch-taped eyelids. Jill St. John, who considers herself a comedienne, puts up a good front. Robert Goulet, whose talent is for singing, doesn't sing. And Keenan Wynn, who has probably been in worse pictures, looks as if he can't remember when...