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Word: summonsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Belmondo's great backlash at the money-grubbing world has palled. We miss the scheming smiles and gleaming winks he projects so well, and even Bujold is having trouble lighting his Don Juan-ish spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Robbed of Illusions | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

The churning is evident far beyond the cobblestoned streets and elegant town houses of Georgetown. At think tanks and campuses across the country, aspiring policymakers hopefully await the phone call that will bring the summons to power. Nowhere are nerves more frazzled than at top law firms, where Republicans leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Why Georgetown Has the Jitters | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

David Halpern's Hollywood On Trial takes a long, diffuse perspective on the Ten and their times, starting with the thirties and moving in little leaps up to the dissolution of the blacklist in the sixties. The footage of the hearings is glorious because, of course, they were staged by...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Lots of singing... Not much dancing | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

Toga Switch. Meanwhile the British, who begin wilting at around 75°, were hard pressed to keep their dignity starched. Businessmen were actually sighted coatless on London streets as temperatures stubbornly hovered near 90° each day, and a beat-the-heat letter to the London Times suggested that since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Heat's On | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

American Bass Baritone Donald Gramm is an example of Glyndebourne's inspired casting as Falstaff. He acknowledges that his voice lacks Verdi's special melodic tessitura. But its dramatic subtleties and Gramm's own worldly manner answer Producer Jean-Pierre Ponelle's demand for a Falstaff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Countryside | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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