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Word: superbeings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic sawbones, he employs all manner of visual props: a purple complexion, a sweaty old fur cap, a superb Calcutta accent that sounds as though he had swallowed a noisy fly as he opened his mouth to talk. Nevertheless, the makeup helps to make, not a music-hall figure of fun, but a man-a gentle, warm, naive and wonderfully decent man. Sellers obviously loves him, and so will everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Controlled Chameleon | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...began in Salem, Ore., where he won his first contest-a tricycle race-when he was seven, and immediately began to form the philosophy that ruled his life: "Everything in life is a game, and the important thing is to win." A frail boy, Gilbert built himself into a superb athlete, became an expert at wrestling, track, bag punching, pole vaulting and gymnastics (he broke a world's record-since broken again-by chinning himself 63 times). At Yale, where he studied medicine to prepare himself to be a physical education director, he broke the world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Just a Boy | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...course the picture like the Festival, ends with Mahalia Jackson singing the Lord's Prayer. As always Mahalia is superb...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Jazz on a Summer's Day | 1/30/1961 | See Source »

Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the sprawling bestseller about Israel into a stirring if lengthy (four-hour) movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jan. 13, 1961 | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

Exodus. Otto Preminger's superb direction and Dalton Trumbo's superlative script have made the rambling bestseller about Israel into a stirring, four-hour epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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