Word: tomtom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dyed white for her role in the Jean Anouilh play, Time Remembered, headed north from Mexico City, was met in Los Angeles by something only a mother could love: her 19-year-old son, Cinemactor James MacArthur, and his hair-razed redskin haircut, done for his role in the tomtom drama, The Light in the Forest...
...ruler, who had a blonde Dutch wife, never showed much fondness for his jungle principality. At the parties which took up most of the little time he spent there, he added swing bands and imported whisky for the traditional tomtom beaters and veiled female attendants. His subjects, Chinese, Malays and Dyaks, regarded him as a stranger, whispered that he had none of the kekuatan adjaib (magical powers) of his ancestors...