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Word: stripper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady Godiva had cantered through Soho last week, she would have been too late. A stripper on horseback has already been signed to work London's "Naughty Mile." The district heaves with a surfeit of female flesh. After years of popularity abroad, the English nude has at last come into her own at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBS & CLUBS: Bare Market | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...Robert Wagner and Grand Old Democrat James A. Farley. His gift, symbolizing good behavior and pugilistic excellence: a jazzy gold crown peppered with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Value, by D'Amato's estimate: $35,000. . . . Of all the U.S. ladies least likely to seem a homebody, Oldtime Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee is the sure choice to take the cake that she herself never baked. But last week it turned out that Gypsy wasn't just cooking with gas-she was making, of all things, clothes. Reporting a survey indicating that 37 million U.S. women make an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 1, 1960 | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...come." Probable translation: barred by law from succeeding himself this time, Ole Earl expects to run for Governor again in 1964. Meanwhile, with his estranged wife Blanche holed up in Baton Rouge, Long was doing his homework in a New Orleans nightspot, where works his favorite houri, Stripper Blaze Starr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

Actor Harvey is sometimes fairly effective as a sort of marked-down, sterling-bloc Sinatra. The lines are often smart enough (stripper complaining of the bald old men in her audience: "It's like playing to an egg box"). But why should so much effort and ability have been expended to make a bad imitation of a Hollywood movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 25, 1960 | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Good God. In the age of Beckett and Ionesco. Bill Saroyan's zaniness seems almost conservative. The new play has a bank clerk named Sam Harkaharkalark, a bank president named Mr. Horniman, and a succession of other Saroyantic types who deposit both cash and wisdom. Among them: a stripper named Daisy Dimple, a blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Back on the Trapeze | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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