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Word: spiced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down? With some exceptions, the musical element in the performances of these troubadours is strangely disappointing. Words are what interests them, as is obvious from their undistinguished melodies. At best, the lyrics attain a gentle, sometimes mystical eloquence. Leonard Cohen, 33, an established Canadian poet and novelist (The Spice-Box of Earth, Beautiful Losers) who recently began performing his songs, tells of Suzanne, who "leads you to the river" and shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Music: Sing Love, Not Protest | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...bedside, and Capitol Records could think of nothing more delightful to give to the Beatles for a present. Small wonder, considering what the girls are like. Slightly more astonishing is that the slender, sexy, epoxy-resin swingers molded by Illinois Sculptor Frank Gallo, 34, also spice up museums from Caracas, Venezuela, to Baltimore, Milwaukee, and even Victoria, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Epoxy Playmates | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Soup is about a bachelor gourmet editor (Gig Young) on the rueful side of 40, who thinks that variety is the spice of sex life until he meets The Girl. Barbara Ferris is a fetching house urchin who wears her microskirt so short that the evening seems like a continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Consolation Prizes | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...flower people, a tattooed drifter full of love and laughter who turned on to every stimulant-from simple, undrugged fun to crystallized "speed" (methedrine, a high-powered amphetamine), which he occasionally sold for profit. Hippies called him "Groovy." Linda Rae Fitzpatrick, 18, was the daughter of a Greenwich, Conn., spice merchant, a blonde and dreamy-eyed dropout from Maryland's exclusive Oldfields School. Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents-both of whom had previously been divorced -she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Speed Kills | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...this, Douglas always adds a touch of spice. A deft, breezy interviewer, he pumps a starlet about her rumored romance or quizzes the Rolling Stones about rag-mop hairdos. On another occasion, he startled Guest Hubert Humphrey by casually commenting that "the President says you can make a speech as easily as you take a breath." The Vice President muttered, "Did the President say that?" After a long pause he added: "Then it's true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mommy's Boy | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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