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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boffo. Though Heimrich named no specific films, lest the notoriety make them boffo at the box office, his target was obvious. Such pictures as Cat Girl and Cry Tough are loaded with unnecessary rough stuff; scenes from The Horse Soldiers, Anatomy of a Murder and It Started with a Kiss boast overt, even sniggering sex. The wonder is that the Protestants have waited so long to draw a bead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Fire & Fall Back | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...poor, yak the shirtless ones as they sit scratching in store-front espresso halls, is to be holy, man, holy. But last week, the mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well. Tourists were snapping up their stuff like Chinese back-scratchers, and the beatniks were starting to rake in the dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bang Bong Bing | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...unnamed Southern town-and occasionally travel out from it. Their various roads to maturity are those of the whole world: love and labor, passion and violence are part of the process; so are dreams of the past, dreams of the future and dreams induced by marijuana and stronger "mainline" stuff. Many of the stories deal with the eternal masculine tension between sex and love. Writes Anderson in "Signifying," a tale of a pretty young Philadelphia schoolteacher who has come to teach in a small southern town where the "mens . . . ain't wolves, Jackson, them is werewolves": "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voices from the South | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Though I was born and raised a Democrat, Dick Nixon has my vote in the coming election. Any man who can spread so much good will with no beat-around-the-bush stuff is worthy of a good Democratic vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pretty Simple Life | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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