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Word: tomatoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislature who crusades for statehood, their children grow up, marry and die violent but poetic deaths during a dogsled race to the obstetrics ward. However, an infant daughter survives the star-crossed union, and in practically no time at all (as Hollywood time flies) she is a grown-up tomato with troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Juicy Case. In Cincinnati, Rita Adams was awarded a divorce because her husband Earl never talked to her, just did "odd things like squeezing a tomato in my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...Tomato Sauce. Like 37-year-old Azzam himself-who was born in Cairo, lives in Geneva, drives a Chevrolet station wagon and speaks five languages-the song is a hybrid, Eurafrican polyglot. Written in French, Italian and Arabic, its lyrics may have been found in a Babel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...this is, more or less, the story of a fellah who once lived in the Cairo slum of Attarine, is now at Chez Maxim's (where Bandleader Azzam himself hit the big time), and adores his girl "like tomato sauce" (salsa del pommodore in Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...band caught the last ship when the Lebanese civil war broke in 1958. In less than two years, Azzam & Co. had driven the Continent wild on Mustapha' s "fox-oriental" mixture. From then on, every thing was pure tomato sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Most Happy Fellah | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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