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Word: tomtoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news, Dia sent rifle-carrying police into the chamber, ordered it dissolved. But Senghor called in his own band of paratroops; they promptly surrounded Dia in his administration building. When the frantic Premier attempted to speak through a loudspeaker, a pro-Senghor mob drowned him out by playing thundering tomtom records, full-blast. At last, Dia surrendered, and was led away to captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senegal: Friends Fall Out | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...Tomtoms, Teddies. Harold Minsky, 48, is the first to admit that his Follies at the International, a Broadway nightclub, is not classic burlesque. Its bumps have been shock-absorbed into harmless thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burlesque: This Must Still Be the Place | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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