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Word: sitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband, the author's answer (yes) is given with great irony to a prosperous executive who lusts for his teen-age baby sitter. Being a decent man, he asks for psychiatric help and is advised to take up woodworking. The ending is a masterpiece of horror: the cure is successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short & Sour | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Anne's; she supplied the young boy's tones for Playwright Gibson's recorded offstage "voices." Although she turns 13 this week-notwithstanding the pressagentry that kept her ten years old for three years-Patty backstage is still often the grade-school child, an inveterate lap sitter. Onstage she is a polished professional who can think on her feet. Once, when a set door stuck and Anne Bancroft swore helplessly under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne's indiscretion. When Anne finally whispered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins) is having a clandestine affair with a well-endowed "niece." With Jessica Tandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Salle's invitation, Massachusetts' Senator Kennedy arrived at the executive mansion in Columbus, traveling light without his decorative wife Jackie ("She wanted to come." deadpanned Millionaire Kennedy, "but we couldn't get a baby sitter"). Di Salle hurried him upstairs to a guest bedroom. There they were joined by Ohio Democratic Chairman William L. Coleman and Kennedy's new strategist, Connecticut Democratic Chairman John Bailey, on loan from Connecticut's Ken nedyite Governor Abraham Ribicoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ohio Power Play | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Baby Sitter. In Kansas City, Mo., Harry Rosenthal pulled into a parking lot in his tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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