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Word: smotherses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Be it ever so decked out in satinstriped wallpaper, No. 10 Downing Street is still home to Gladys Mary Wilson, 48. The new P.M.'s wife has moved in her washing machine and drying rack ("I couldn't quite see myself hanging out the washing") and dismissed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 27, 1964 | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Mounting a lavish display of props, costumery and lighting effects, the Phoenix production camouflages the entire metaphysical tragedy and smothers the tensions in Marlowe's imagination, which was fearfully and longingly obsessed by the Christianity that his intelligence scoffed at and rejected. The cast gargles "Marlowe's mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Deviled Marlowe | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

∙ ON INTERIOR DECORATION: "Only the mindless house is dull. When the mode calls for colonial they are ruffled and cobbler-benched within an inch of their lives. When the vogue stipulates wall-to-wall carpeting, everything, including stairways, smothers ankle-deep in wool. The whole" effect of such interiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: A Woman's Place | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

(Mercury). The Smothers Brothers sing straight and well on occasion, but their mission in life is their antic spoofing of the folk scene, which appeals especially to teenagers. Their latest is not as funny as Think Ethnic!, where they expounded their own crazy version of John Henry and sang: "Black...

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

"It's just one of those silly things," says New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, who started keeping licorice in his Capitol desk years ago to sweeten up dull debates. "I would give Wayne Morse some. Then Alan Bible would look over and say, 'What are you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 5, 1964 | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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