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Word: spectacularized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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THUNDERBALL. The slightly faded James Bond formula is brightened by spectacular underwater effects, a few splashy conquests, and Sean Connery, who by now delivers his Jimcracks martini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...Dead Sea scrolls from Qumran have been widely heralded as the most spectacular archaeological find of the century. Almost as important for Biblical research, many scholars believe, are the little-known discoveries that have been made at Ras Shamra (meaning "hill of fennel") in northern Syria. There, since 1929, archaeologists led by Dr. Claude F. A. Schaeffer of the College de France have been painstakingly digging up the remains of the ancient Canaanite city-state of Ugarit, which was destroyed in the 12th century B.C. A neighbor of ancient Israel, Ugarit had a language closely allied to Hebrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: From the Hill of Fennel | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...began to stir. In England, with the theater so rooted in tradition, the government nourished the renaissance with money. A government-appointed Arts Council had opened the cash drawers in 1946, now began spending widely; last season alone contributed more than $2.5 million for the dramatic arts. The most spectacular beneficiaries today are also the newest-the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The New Elizabethans | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...Rumanian Folk Ballet, performing in Washington, D.C., danced even less: 13 of their 19 numbers were vocal or orchestral. The dancers traded on speed, unflagging vigor and, as a handout from the Rumanian Embassy advised, smiles that "always blossom on the cheeks of our people." In a spectacular number, The Forest Mountains, the men reeled off a series of backward somersaults over the shoulders of their girl partners, falling on the stage and twitching furiously, then leaping up for the thigh-slapping routine. For a finale, a panpiper let loose with a spirited version of Yankee Doodle, which brought smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dance: Following in The Folksteps | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...glory of God. Last week CBS put on an hour-long concert of ecclesiastical jazz by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, video-taped at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Southern Baptists, besides their soap-operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers' Insight presents adult melodrama in half-hour playlets about abortion, divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Excitement on the Tube | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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