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Word: strutting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pigeons, by Lawrence Osgood, tries to strut like Albee-cum-Pinter. The most aggressive of a trio of women attempts to invade the privacy of spirit and being of the others, to get not only under the skin but into the psyche. Lacking Albee's venom or Pinter's menace, these are three dead pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Trouble with Inbreeding | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...when they're spewn upon the city streets and gobbled, many of them, by pimps and whores who've waited all night for their exodus. Night club shows end earlier, threeisn, a fine time for a walking tour of midtown. By five the bartenders are wending homeward, and pigeons strut unchallenged down Park Avenue. Head over to Fulton Street Market and have an-early seafood breakfast with rubber-booted fishermen at Sloppy Louie's (92 South Street). By six the early commuters are pushing in on the subways and Broadway is alive again. It's a melancholy jaunt...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: THE CITY | 12/16/1964 | See Source »

...Relax, and give this PLAY a chance to strut its stuff--relax, don't worry because it's not like something else--relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about'--like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this PLAY isn't 'about,' it simply is...DON'T TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT, LET IT TRY TO UNDERSTAND...

Author: By E.e. Leach, | Title: Him | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

...ambition for the walk of the miners in corduroy trousers, with yorks under the knees to stop the loose coal running down into your boots and the rats from running up inside your trousers, and the lamp in the cap on the head, and the bandy muscle-bound strut of the lords of the coalface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: A Beginning Writer | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...U.S.jetmakers, regard Latin America as one of the biggest potential markets anywhere. Both have sales teams touring Latin America making a hard pitch for their new DC-9 and 727 medium-to-short-range jets. Last month Boeing sent one of its three-engined 727s to strut its stuff on a 14-day tour of five South American countries. It was the first jet ever to land at La Paz (elevation: 13,358 ft.). As bowler-hatted Indian women gaped at the sight, the silvery 727 howled down the runway and took off -using only two of its three engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Lifeline in the Air | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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