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Word: sunbonnet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheap gimmickery of the fourth act. David Levi's Camillo is a barometer for the travesties of this act. Levi starts as a glorious Camillo, wonderfully obsequious to his lord but courageous enough to flee with the King of Bohemia. Levi enters the fourth act wearing a turbanlike sunbonnet and granny sunglasses, doing a mincing dance. The Adams House crowd roared...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Sad Tale's Best | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...head and rode the merry-go-round, saying, "This is part of the American spirit-you don't need much to be happy." Is she happy? someone dared ask the First Lady. "Yes, I am. I've got the greatest guy in the world." Presented with a sunbonnet, she put it on and kept it on all the way back to Washington, ex plaining whimsically: "I think this is the real me. I could really be a pioneer." In a sense she is, and while sophisticates may dismiss such doings as cornpone, the crowds love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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