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Word: singin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colorful misery." Home again in Texas, Joe started working some of those miserable shades into songs. There were several false starts and at least one more hard-times visit to New York, where, Ely recalls, "I was mostly singin' in the subways and in front of Bloomindale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Riding High with Hard-Luck Guys | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...character like Billy McCoy, who makes Rocky Balboa sound as cynical as Céline, has not graced movies since John Wayne's "Singin' Sandy" westerns of the mid-'30s. His nemesis turned girlfriend recalls the snooty madcaps of the old screwball comedies. Sondra Locke is no Carole Lombard; indeed, Bronco Billy would have benefited from the presence of a more elegant, less abrasive actress like Jill Clayburgh or Blythe Banner. But Locke strong-arms her way into your affections at about the time Billy wins her over, and by the end of Bronco Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Carnival Knowledge | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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