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Word: speakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast would take turns with an air rifle, shooting down the show's best-known props, the balloons, which had floated to the ceiling. It was a sublimation that kept them from plinking away at each other. At one point, Colleagues Rosemary Murphy and Gene Hackman refused to speak to Sandy offstage. But several of her revisions stayed with the show after she left-and even now adorn Any Wednesday productions in summer stock. In any case, she could do no wrong with audiences: her first-scene line "I'm really adorable" invariably got a rapturous ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Talent Without Tinsel | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

George Segal, cast as her husband, pronounced Sandy "100% disciplined." Unlike the run of Hollywood girls he had played opposite, he found that stage-steeped Dennis "really listens; she isn't just waiting to speak. You are really talking to someone." Richard Burton found her "exceptionally professional." Or as Elizabeth Taylor put it, "terrifyingly professional." Which doesn't suggest, added Liz, that Sandy isn't "rather nitty at times-I mean she is not like your next-door neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Talent Without Tinsel | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...Social developments in the German Democratic Republic and West Germany are so different that it is no longer possible to speak of one German national language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Semantics of Separatism | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...fuses sight and sound into a single artistic unity. His people speak in a curious linguistic melange, basically Bengali but liberally daubed with English stock phrases. His musical background, which he himself composed, is a similar fluid mixture in which a line of Oriental melody moves imperceptibly toward a Western cadence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Epic of Eavesdropping | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...left, and was posted to the general staff. His work at the highest level convinced him at last that he was serving a vicious criminal cause Rapidly he found himself one of a number of German officers and influential civilians who felt that German honor -not to speak of Europe itself-could survive only if Hitler were overthrown and peace negotiated. Stauffenberg personally enlisted many friends in a conspiracy to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Higher Responsibility | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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