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Word: sparse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Wild 90 Mailer, with Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox-both of whom are real actors-pretend they have been holed up together for days. They yell at each other and chain-drink. The camera stays mostly on Mailer, who goes "Unhh! Unhh!" a lot while he is thinking up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wild 90 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

Pious platitudes like "message" and "communication" flicker like votive candles as Dylan spars with journalists, dodges hordes of adoring teeny-boppers with majestic modesty, picks petty backstage fights with anybody in sight, and freezes into zombie-like immobility as soon as all backs are turned. And yet there are also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pop Prophet | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

The FAA directive reflects more than anything else the fact that the pioneering jetliners have reached middle age. The first 707s went into service back in 1958, and some of the earliest have since logged more than 250,000 flight hours. The hairline cracks are caused by metal fatigue that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Middle-Age Spread | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

Besides boasting Europe's most outstanding fleshpot, the Reeperbahn, with its banks of bordellos, the good city of Hamburg has a stern ordinance against picturing nudes on public posters. So it was only natural that when the manager of the Hamburger Aussenwerbung ad agency saw that scabrous lithograph, Painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 21, 1966 | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

DYLAN. Whether Alec Guinness, as Dylan Thomas, spars with newsmen, spats with his wife, or speaks in the soft dark ness next to a sleeping child, he conveys the poet's warmth and wit-as we! as his decline through sycophancy, self indulgence and alcohol.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 13, 1964 | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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